oops - bad me - that was supposed to be action in the example not target.

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Anthony Ettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "target=" isn't a valid attribute for <form> tag...and making the
> "action" attribute a url with GET parameters is a bad idea.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Mark Elrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I am trying to rid my site of potential XSS vulnerabilities. One that
>> I have found is that if I use $r->uri in my form targets it does not
>> filter out garbage after the filename:
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> Given this url:
>>
>> http://example.com/index.html/bogus_path/<xss>"><script>alert('XSS')</script>/
>>
>> <form target="<% $r->uri %>">
>>
>> would become:
>>
>> <form 
>> target="http://example.com/index.html/bogus_path/<xss>"><script>alert('XSS')</script>/
>> ">
>>
>> Any suggestions on how to avoid this? I tried looking into using the
>> component path but sometimes the form is generated in a subcomponent.
>>
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