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Escape reflected XSS HTML tag input at level 1 - #222

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Summary

  • HTML-escape Level 1 reflected values before placing them inside the response <div>
  • close the generated wrapper with </div> so the returned markup stays well-formed
  • keep benign text rendering unchanged while preventing script-tag interpretation

Verification

  • ./gradlew compileJava test spotlessJavaCheck bootJar --no-daemon passed in an eclipse-temurin:17-jdk container
  • vulnerable baseline returns <div><script>alert(1)</script><div> for q=<script>alert(1)</script>
  • patched runtime returns <div>&lt;script&gt;alert(1)&lt;/script&gt;</div> and still returns <div>hello world</div> for benign text

Signed-off-by: snow <snow@snows-MacBook-Pro-2.local>
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