January 16, 2025
Belgian ethical hacking platform Intigriti hosted a new XSS (Cross Site Scripting) challenge in January 2025.
The challenge was build around a discrepancy in 2 JavaScript functions. One function doing XSS sanitization was not taking a complete web URL into account while the developer made the mistake to create a second function that allows user input coming from anywhere within the web URL.
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