Fix html attribute escaping - #4015
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Why does |
It's not exactly a security issue in this case. const parent = document.body;
const text = 'hello "world"';
parent.insertAdjacentHTML('afterbegin', `<div data-string="${text}"></div>`);
if (parent.firstChild.dataset.string !== text) {
throw new Error('oops! lost information');
}
I've no idea. I assume |
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This makes sense to me. Thank you!
Fixes #4014.
This just adds the missing
&and removes superfluous<>from the html attribute escape dictionary.<>are treated as raw characters inside a double-quoted attribute value. This means they can contain</script>and friends inside, but if we're already in rawtext mode (meaning, inside an open<script>or other greedy html tags), then we're already inside an xss vector and we'd have to escape every single character, askill(everyone)would be a valid value.Try it:
<tag data-value="<script>alert('pwned')</script>">is properly handled by browsers.Please don't delete this checklist! Before submitting the PR, please make sure you do the following:
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