CWE•Variant•Incomplete•6 recent CVEs
CWE-82Improper Neutralization of Script in Attributes of IMG Tags in a Web Page
Description
The web application does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes scripting elements within attributes of HTML IMG tags, such as the src attribute.
Attackers can embed XSS exploits into the values for IMG attributes (e.g. SRC) that is streamed and then executed in a victim's browser. Note that when the page is loaded into a user's browsers, the exploit will automatically execute.
Common consequences
- Confidentiality,Integrity,Availability→Read Application Data,Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands
Potential mitigations
- Implementation[object Object]
- ImplementationTo help mitigate XSS attacks against the user's session cookie, set the session cookie to be HttpOnly. In browsers that support the HttpOnly feature (such as more recent versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox), this attribute can prevent the user's session cookie from being accessible to malicious client-side scripts that use document.cookie. This is not a complete solution, since HttpOnly is n