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#8 Security: [img] tags emit raw text for invalid URLs

closed-fixed
Bug fix (25)
9
2009-06-21
2009-06-21
No

[img] tags, when they find a URL that's not valid, are supposed to emit a plaintext version of the original contents. They do this, but they fail to encode the HTML, so that it's possible to inject raw HTML into the output via [img] tags. This allows XSS, redirection, and other cookie-stealing attacks against end-users.

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  • phantom-inker

    phantom-inker - 2009-06-21

    This has been fixed in release v1.4.2.

     
  • phantom-inker

    phantom-inker - 2009-06-21
    • status: open --> closed-fixed
     

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