safer construction of popup click handler #1888
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etpinard
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Jul 17, 2017
| dummyAnchor.href = href; | ||
| if(PROTOCOLS.indexOf(dummyAnchor.protocol) !== -1) { | ||
| nodeSpec.href = href; | ||
| nodeSpec.href = encodeURI(href); |
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FWIW I couldn't identify any vulnerability due to not calling encodeURI here - quotes and other special characters embedded in href still can't break you out of the href attribute (while constructing the onclick string or otherwise) to where you can cause more damage - but it makes strange items look more url-like.
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Fixes an XSS vulnerability in links defined with the special
popupattribute. See the added test case for three variants that were previously able to exploit it.The fix here constructs the
onclickhandler in a safer way: it re-extractshrefandtargetfrom the element attributes, and it restricts the characters allowed in thepopup(strWindowFeatures) attribute since we know there's only so much that can be used there.cc @etpinard @scjody - this bug came in with #1783 which was included in v1.28.0