Re: Let's exploit this

[Tim <tim-pentest () sentinelchicken org>]

> if you don't care about a js error you can even just end the script
> block and start again [assuming, of course, that we are actually
> _inside_ a script block and not a href or something similar]
>
> like so: FOO = '</script><script>alert("extra script blocks are
> cool.")</script><script>//'
>
> sure, you'll get one js error, but it doesn't really matter, as your
> code will still run.

Hey, you're right.  I had a suspicion that this might work, and indeed
it does.  I wasn't 100% sure, as browsers' parsing algorithms are so
incredibly complex, that the obvious may not work.

I think when I first came across this situation in an application, most
HTML special characters were actually encoded, except for apostrophes,
which were backslashed.

Anyway, I'll try to post a more difficult one next week.

thanks,
tim

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