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Feed Injection in Web 2.0: Hacking RSS and Atom Feed Implementations

Robert Auger · SPI Dynamics, Inc.

SPI Labs whitepaper on Feed Injection: RSS and Atom readers variously render feed markup literally, entity-decode it before display, or strip it, and the first two execute attacker script from title, link and description elements. Local readers that write HTML to disk and load it in IE grant local-zone ActiveX, giving file theft and unrestricted XMLHttpRequest port scanning.

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Feed Injection in Web 2.0: Hacking RSS and Atom Feed Implementations

Researcher

Robert Auger

Published by

SPI Dynamics, Inc.

Format

Whitepaper

Topic

Other

In the archive

• Ranked #10 in the 2006 Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques

Tags

• xss
• injection
• activex
• csrf
• sandbox-escape
• filter-bypass
• measurement-study
• owasp-a01-2021
• owasp-a03-2021
• owasp-a05-2021

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Robert Auger, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 9 September 2026.