bugtraq - Re: TEXT/PLAIN: ALERT("OUTLOOK EXPRESS")

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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:35:55 +0200
From: Denis Jedig <seclists@...eticon.de>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: TEXT/PLAIN: ALERT("OUTLOOK EXPRESS")


http-equiv@...ite.com wrote:
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> [...]
> <img dynsrc=javascript:alert()><font color=red>foo
> 
> The above is a legitimate RFC822 mail message in plain text. 
> Ordinarily one would require an html mail message [Content-Type: 
> text/html;] to parse html and scripting. 

Internet Explorer seems to take no offense on Content-Types either - 
text/plain from a web server is happily rendered as HTML, if it contains 
valid tags.

Denis Jedig
syneticon GbR