The error page that echoes your input
10 points · about 20 minutes · flag formatDC{...}Brief
Cross-site scripting is what happens when input becomes executable script in somebody else's browser. If a value you supply is reflected into a page — or stored and shown to others — without being encoded for its context, you can make the page run code as any visitor who sees it.
This lab: The error page that echoes your input. Get your script to run in another visitor's browser on this origin.
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Objective
Find an input that reaches the page unescaped, craft a payload that executes, and use it to read the value the page keeps out of ordinary reach. Capture the flag your script can see.
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