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Recommended XSS protection htmlDecode() isn't actually safe #117

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andymadge opened this issue Nov 7, 2014 · 1 comment

andymadge commented Nov 7, 2014

Even though the DIV never gets attached to the DOM, some browsers will still load images and fire events. See this comment on Stackoverflow

Using a textarea instead of e a DIV is safer, see here.

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andymadge commented Nov 7, 2014

See http://jsfiddle.net/vcm8r35a/ to demo the problem

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