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Fontleak: exfiltrating text using CSS and Ligatures

An attacker who can inject CSS loads a custom font whose ligature rules collapse a known prefix plus the next character into a single glyph of a distinct width, so a container query on a sibling element measures that width and fires a different image request per character. Chained imports and animations advance the index, exfiltrating page text at roughly a thousand characters a minute.

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Dragos Albastroiu
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