CAPEC-247: XSS Using Invalid Characters

ID CAPEC-247
Typical Severity Medium
Status Draft

An adversary inserts invalid characters in identifiers to bypass application filtering of input. Filters may not scan beyond invalid characters but during later stages of processing content that follows these invalid characters may still be processed. This allows the adversary to sneak prohibited commands past filters and perform normally prohibited operations. Invalid characters may include null, carriage return, line feed or tab in an identifier. Successful bypassing of the filter can result in a XSS attack, resulting in the disclosure of web cookies or possibly other results.

https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/247.html

Weaknesses

# ID Name Type
CWE-86 Improper Neutralization of Invalid Characters in Identifiers in Web Pages weakness
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