XSS warning - is this a bug?
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:09 am
I'm getting the XSS warning when passing this parameter to any site where scripts are allowed:
q=%0A%26lt%3Bscript
For example:
http://www.kernel.org/?q=%0A%26lt%3Bscript
The parameter decodes as: [newline]<script
Is this a bug? How could that parameter be considered a XSS risk? (The initial newline seems to trigger it - without that it's not a problem.)
q=%0A%26lt%3Bscript
For example:
http://www.kernel.org/?q=%0A%26lt%3Bscript
The parameter decodes as: [newline]<script
Is this a bug? How could that parameter be considered a XSS risk? (The initial newline seems to trigger it - without that it's not a problem.)