full-disclosure - Re: Arin.net XSS

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Date: Mon Mar  6 14:30:38 2006
From: davek_throwaway at hotmail.com (Dave Korn)
Subject: Re: Arin.net XSS

Steven wrote:
> It works in IE just fine and probably some other browsers.
>
> Firefox does a few things:
>
> 1) It takes the liberty of converting "<" to %3C
> 2) Leaves %3C as %3C and does not convert into "<"

  Nope, that's bog-standard URL encoding, IE does it too, although they may 
differ in whether they show you it or not, but the request sent to the 
server is always URL-encoded.

> This prevents the script from being interpreted (in)properly via the
> Address bar.

  Nope, it's not run from the address bar, it's run from the body html of 
the returned page.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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