Bypassing Firefox's HTML Sanitizer API
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Summary
Gareth Heyes bypassed Firefox's HTML Sanitizer API: SVG 'use' elements importing same-origin absolute URLs still executed JavaScript, even for uploads protected with Content-Disposition: attachment.
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--- id: 5468 title: "Bypassing Firefox's HTML Sanitizer API" source_domain: portswigger.net source_url: "https://portswigger.net/research/bypassing-firefoxs-html-sanitizer-api" published_at: "2022-07-04T07:46:00Z" tags: ["browser-security", "firefox", "xss", "svg", "html-sanitizer", "sanitizer-bypass"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/5468" lang: en --- # Bypassing Firefox's HTML Sanitizer API ## Summary Gareth Heyes bypassed Firefox's HTML Sanitizer API: SVG 'use' elements importing same-origin absolute URLs still executed JavaScript, even for uploads protected with Content-Disposition: attachment. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** portswigger.net - **Published:** 2022-07-04T07:46:00Z - **Original:** https://portswigger.net/research/bypassing-firefoxs-html-sanitizer-api - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/5468