Questions tagged [html-injections]
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Preventing HTML and Script injections in Javascript
Assume I have a page with an input box. The user types something into the input box and hits a button. The button triggers a function that picks up the value typed into the text box and outputs it onto the page beneath the text box for whatever…

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How do I escape HTML by default in Liquid?
I know that it's possible to escape HTML in liquid by using the escape filter
# cthulhu is ""
{{ cthulhu || escape }}
but is it possible to make liquid escape the HTML in all variables by default?
I know that Rails escapes all…

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Passing authentication token in header while redirecting to a new SPA page
Assume these:
A -----------------------> B
(Sender website) (Angular website)
We implemented a normal Angular SPA (B) that its index.html and other resources are simply hosted in IIS and there is a simple rewrite rule for handling…

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HTML injection into someone else's website?
I've got a product that embeds into websites similarly to Paypal (customers add my button to their website, users click on this button and once the service is complete I redirect them back to the original website).
I'd like to demo my technology to…

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RuntimeError: main thread is not in main loop using Matplotlib with Django
I am creating a Matplotlib figure to display in a HTML template in my Django application. I send this figure to the HTML by saving it under my static files, and then loading an img tag with the saved .png.
I do this in my views.py after getting a…

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How to inject HTML code safely (avoid HTML injection)
In our enterprise software we allow customers to supply their own HTML to customize the ‘Contact’ and ‘Legal’ pages of the app. Its a nice feature, but as our app knows nothing specific about the app which actually provides the HTML, I was wondering…

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Why these 5 (6?) characters are considered "unsafe" HTML characters?
In PHP, there is a function called htmlspecialchars() that performs the following substitutions on a string:
& (ampersand) is converted to &
" (double quote) is converted to "
' (single quote) is converted to ' (only if the flag…

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How is HTML injection possible in this domxss.com challenge
OWASP's testing for HTML injection page (link) shows a particular code that is supposed to be vulnerable to HTML injection.