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by _RPM 4294 days ago
Oh I see. This makes sense. This doesn't seem challenging to prevent. A simple replacement of characters on the HTML entity table would have prevented this instead of putting arbitrary text onto standard output.
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Correct. The purpose of this post is to demonstrate yet another class of website that does not validate user input.
Yep, missing that is what makes this an "XSS" :)