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https://ayesh.me/go/XSS

HTTP Headers are user-input for the recipient. I delivered a few security-related talks where my website sends XSS payloads in its HTTP headers. There are many "HTTP Headers checker" websites that fail to sanitize HTTP headers, and they make a good punchline for the talk about sanitizing user-input.

The same goes for DNS records too.




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