HexBrain

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

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