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Bugtraq: Re: Re: Re: Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability

Re: Re: Re: Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability

From: Jon Ribbens <jon+bugtraq2_at_unequivocal.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:44:15 +0100

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:20:52PM -0000, Tom.Donovan_at_acm.org wrote:
> It appears there is little that web servers can do to thwart this,
> short of changing all '+' characters to %2B. That seems excessive.

To be fair, this is what Microsoft has recommended, explicitly for the
purpose of preventing XSS, for *at least* the last 6 years. The library
I use does indeed encode "+" as "&#43;".
Received on May 16 2008

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