Internet Explorer Accepts Style Attributes on Closing HTML Tags
There’s a really interesting thread on sla.ckers.org talking about bypassing some fairly rigid anti-XSS vectors that allow nothing that looks like HTML. Specifically it doesn’t allow <[A-Za-z] which does limit the vectors pretty substantially. In the process of working through the attack vector Hong mentioned that an attack could surface inside of an end HTML tag. Here’s the example code:
</a style="xx:expression(alert('xss'))">
It gets around the filter because there is no letter immediately following the open angle bracket, it is a forward slash. I’m not exactly sure why any end attribute should be allowed to have style information associated with it, since that doesn’t really make sense contextually. This doesn’t appear to work in Firefox or Opera, but it does work in Internet Explorer, which makes up a vast majority of the browsing community. I wanted to wait until the exploit actually worked before posting it, as it was a very interesting way to bypass filters that probably wouldn’t have worked in any other way (with the possible exception of injecting nulls). Nice find, Hong!
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