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

From: Jon Ribbens <jon+bugtraq2 () unequivocal co uk>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:44:15 +0100

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:20:52PM -0000, Tom.Donovan () 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;".

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Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability lament hero (May 09)
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- Re: Re: Re: Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability Tom . Donovan (May 15)
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- Re: Re: Re: Re: Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability yos20053 (May 17)
  - Re: Re: Re: Re: Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability Paul Szabo (May 19)
  - Re: Re: Re: Re: Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability Tim (May 19)
  - Re: Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability William A. Rowe, Jr. (May 19)
- Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability Tom . Donovan (May 19)