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Re: Re: Re: Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability May 14 2008 05:20PM
Tom Donovan acm org (1 replies)
Re: Re: Re: Apache Server HTML Injection and UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability May 16 2008 09:44AM
Jon Ribbens jon+bugtraq2 (at) unequivocal.co (dot) uk [email concealed] (jon+bugtraq2 unequivocal co uk)
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:20:52PM -0000, Tom.Donovan (at) acm (dot) org [email concealed] 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 "+".

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