Collected research

IE9 Self-XSS Blackbox Protection bypass

Soroush Dalili · soroush.me

IE9 strips javascript: and vbscript: from pasted addresses to blunt self-XSS scams. Dalili found the filter is bypassed by wrapping the scheme, for example XfileX: followed by control characters and then the javascript: payload, which IE9 still executes. Combined with the Ctrl+Shift+L go-to-copied-address shortcut it becomes a one-keystroke social engineering attack.

Record

Researcher

Soroush Dalili

Published by

soroush.me

Topic

XSS

In the archive

• Collected in the 2012 research round

Tags

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

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Soroush Dalili, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 11 August 2026.