Tag: XML

Please, don’t use user supplied XSLT

I didn’t even want to write about this, because hopefully it is not a wide spread problem but it is such a catastrophic programming mistake which I saw in a production system that I felt the need to talk about it. So to summarize this blog post in one sentence: total client-side exploit using user defined XSLT.

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Tricking the XML parser

Nowadays there are numerous web application frameworks to implement a rich web application. I have already written about one of them. These frameworks usually use AJAX and XmlHttpRequests filled with either XML or JSON. In this post I will write about the XML part. In that case the first step is always to fight with the XML parser on the server-side.
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Revenge of XHTML

My colleague brought my attention to a really interesting ‘feature’ of browsers. Namely that XHTML namespaces in an XML document will be rendered as XHTML instead of XML. That means that if you can some way control an XML that will be rendered by the target’s browser, then you can insert HTML and of course JavaScript code. So this feature widens an XML injection to an endless attack vector.
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