From 2d3e42e6d66aacf8c20609fae964040fa5278b2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Krogh Kristensen Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:50:46 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] update qhelp for xss-through-dom Co-Authored-By: Asger F --- javascript/ql/src/Security/CWE-079/XssThroughDom.qhelp | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/javascript/ql/src/Security/CWE-079/XssThroughDom.qhelp b/javascript/ql/src/Security/CWE-079/XssThroughDom.qhelp index 297e3739fee..ca99672f4a5 100644 --- a/javascript/ql/src/Security/CWE-079/XssThroughDom.qhelp +++ b/javascript/ql/src/Security/CWE-079/XssThroughDom.qhelp @@ -5,8 +5,7 @@

-Writing text from a webpage to the same webpage without properly sanitizing the -input first, might allow for a cross-site scripting vulnerability. +Extracting text from a DOM node and interpreting it as HTML can lead to a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

A webpage with this vulnerability unescapes an otherwise sanitized text,