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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 20:30:53 -0700
From: Andrew Farmer <andfarm@...il.com>
To: CnCxzSec衰仔 <cncxzhack@...il.com>
Cc: Full Disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: IE handling the HTML notes incorrectly may
	lead to XSS attacks

On 2011-08-07, at 19:53, CnCxzSec衰仔 wrote:
> hi all, here is an interesting trick to perform an xss attack with IE
> browsers.
> 
> some rich text applications such as email and blog, may provide HTML uses
> but have a policy to block the on-event execution to prevent the XSS attack.
> However, this applications may also allow the HTML notes uses,for instance
> "<!--  -->"

Any such applications are likely to also be vulnerable to a simpler attack based on "downlevel-hidden" conditional comments:

<!--[if IE]>
<script>anything you want can go here, presumably</script>
<![endif]-->
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