Collected research
Location based XSS attacks
DOM XSS delivered through location.hash, which the browser never sends to the server, so server-side filters and WAFs see only half the payload. The server half calls eval(location.hash.slice(1)); a stronger variant needs no parentheses at all by opening a comment server-side and closing it in the hash, assigning location a javascript: URL built from both halves.
Record
- Researcher
- Gareth Heyes
- Published by
- thespanner.co.uk
- Topic
- XSS
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