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Message-ID: <406C839D.8020500@doxdesk.com>
From: and-bugtraq at doxdesk.com (Andrew Clover)
Subject: internet-explorer: bug or feature?
<ko5@...h.com> wrote:
> about:<script>alert('*plopp*');</script>
> a small alert popps up and says me '*plopp*', so it seems, that i can
> inject any code i want.
Originally reported here:
http://www.doxdesk.com/personal/posts/bugtraq/20010819-ie.html
This was eventually fixed in IE6 SP1, after it was discovered that due
to a parsing error this could be abused to execute in the security
context of any target domain.
> i am not sure if its what the 'about:'-construct is for
It was just another random pointless feature. IE has a lot of these.
Sometimes they prove a security liability and very occasionally they get
removed, but no-one seems to have thought of not including them in the
first place.
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Andrew Clover
mailto:and@...desk.com
http://www.doxdesk.com/
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