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render :json don't escape htmlentities.
Reported by Tohru Hashimoto | November 21st, 2010 @ 07:00 AM
XSS happend by IE6 and IE7.
app/controllers/json_controller.rb
class JsonController < ApplicationController
def index
xss = "<script>alert('hoge')</script>"
render :json => {:a => xss }
end
end
config/routes.rb
RenderJsonXss::Application.routes.draw do
root :to => 'json#index'
end
and access to http://localhost:3000/.html with
IE6 or IE7.
response:
{"a":"<script>alert('hoge')</script>"}
I think render :json should escape htmlentities.
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Andrés Mejía November 21st, 2010 @ 03:04 PM
-1 on this.
Why would you directly access an action that renders JSON in the first place?
I don't really see how could this be used for an XSS attack. Mind explaining?
And if you really want to escape the content, you can use:
render :json => {:a => CGI::escape(xss) }But I don't see any reason for this to be the default behavior.
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rails February 22nd, 2011 @ 12:00 AM
- State changed from “new” to “open”
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