#23544: Escape backtick
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Reporter: djbug | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Uncategorized | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Keywords: xss
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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IE8 can suffer from XSS if backtick is left unescaped as it can be used to
switch out of the attribute. It should be added in
`django.utils.html.escape()` if this is a serious security issue.
Source & related discussions:
https://cure53.de/fp170.pdf
https://html5sec.org/#102
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/postxss/
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