HackerOne · Report #123278
Possible XSS
Informativestatus
5upvotes
21 Apr 2016disclosed
How it was found
Hi,
I opened this report as soon as I have read https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/
It doesn't necessarly affect HackerOne, nor have i given it enough time to get a working dom manipulation. But since Markdown allows creating target attributes to anchor tags, it may be possible to get this executed. even if it doesn't, I think you shouldn't let users set the target=_blank attribute to their links. I reported this because I know (and have read similar reportes where) hackerone cares about even the slightest possiblites of this kinds of bugs existing
Markdown can create them using:
[link](url){:target="_blank"}
Thanks, Paulos