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Results, Unicode Left/Right Pointing Double Angel Quotation Mark

Two years after a full-disclosure thread suggested it, WhiteHat Sentinel scan data confirmed that some applications normalise angle-quotation and angle-bracket characters into < and >. Across samples of 300 to 1000 sites, 31 exploitable XSS were found in 25 sites where such encodings were the only route to arbitrary HTML.

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Jeremiah Grossman
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blog.jeremiahgrossman.com
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