Collected research

Self-contained XSS Attacks

pdp · gnucitizen.org

A data: URI carries a whole HTML document, so XSS needs no vulnerable echo point: the payload is the URL. pdp shows base64 data: links executing script in Firefox and Opera, bypassing mail filters, XSS filters and sanitisers, and assembling binary DOC files client-side for worm payloads. IE6 and IE7 do not process data: and are unaffected.

Record

Researcher

pdp

Published by

gnucitizen.org

Topic

XSS

In the archive

• Collected in the 2006 research round

Tags

• xss
• filter-bypass
• sanitizer-bypass
• encoding
• url-parsing
• javascript
• owasp-a03-2021
• owasp-a05-2021

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of pdp, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 16 August 2026.