Web Hack List

Preliminary research

What's in a tag name? JavaScript, apparently

AI-collected research leads through 3 November 2026, including a November–October–September missed-article review and a targeted multilingual search alongside earlier community-source sweeps. Unranked, incomplete, not community-vetted, and subject to change.

JavaScript hidden in an HTML tag name becomes a payload source when an executable handler reads and transforms that name. The article develops a reusable XSS construction from browser parsing and string behavior; its demonstrated primitive does not by itself establish a bypass of a deployed filter.

Record

Researcher
Gareth Heyes
Published by
PortSwigger
Date

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