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Bypassing CSP for fun, no profit

A Content Security Policy bypass using UTF-7 and JSON. Any site with a JSON feed an attacker can influence can carry fully UTF-7 encoded script, because the encoding conceals quotes and other string characters from correct JSON escaping. Referencing the feed with a script tag and charset=utf-7 executes it as same-origin code, so CSP's restrictions do not apply.

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Researcher
Gareth Heyes
Published by
thespanner.co.uk
Topic
XSS

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