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Rob Tompkins updated TEXT-42:
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Fix Version/s: (was: 1.0)
1.x
> [XSS] Possible attacks through StringEscapeUtils.escapeEcmaScript?
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> Key: TEXT-42
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEXT-42
> Project: Commons Text
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Andy Reek
> Labels: XSS
> Fix For: 1.x
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> org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils.escapeEcmaScript does the escape
> via a prefixed '\' on all characters which must be escaped. I am not sure if
> this is really secure, if am looking at the comments on
> https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS_(Cross_Site_Scripting)_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet#RULE_.233_-_JavaScript_Escape_Before_Inserting_Untrusted_Data_into_JavaScript_Data_Values.
> They say it is possible to do an attack by escape the escape. I tested this
> with the string '\"' and the output was '\\\"'. Is this really
> ecma-/java-script secure? Or is it better to use the implementation used by
> OWASP?
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