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JavaScript in SVGs

2024-01-19 20:45:12.323235+01 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

RT bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺 @bert_hubert@fosstodon.org

And another unfortunate security thing I learned today is that .svg files can contain JavaScript, and that your browser will happily execute that if someone directly views your image (so not through ). This has consequences for anyone hosting user supplied images. Thank you Wander Nauta for pointing this out. The painful story is here: https://github.com/berthubert/trifecta/issues/38

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#Comment Re: JavaScript in SVGs made: 2024-01-20 18:06:21.518611+01 by: meuon

Oh that could be sneaky.