Exploiting XSS in jQuery without equal character?

Question

This is some vulnerable JavaScript code:

$(document).ready(function(){ var payload = unescape(document.location.hash.substr(1)); $(payload); document.body.innerText = "The payload is: " + payload; }); 

When I tried exploiting it with this input

http://localhost/xss.html#<img src=x onerror=alert(0)> 

it worked fine, popping up the alert. My case is slightly different, there's a little filter that prevents the exploit:

$(document).ready(function(){ var payload = unescape(document.location.hash.substr(1)); payload = payload.split('=')[0]; // <------- The new filter $(payload); document.body.innerText = "The payload is: " + payload; }); 

It truncates everything after the "=" character, which means I can't inject attributes. I already tried the following, but it did not work:

• HTML encode the equal character (onerror&equal;alert())
• <script>alert(0);</script>

Anyone have an idea what I can do to bypass this filter?

Answer 1

I think it is safe to say at this point that there is no trivial/text-book bypass for this filter using a modern browser. I shared this snippet of code with a group of friends and colleagues who I consider proficient in XSS and none of them could construct a bypass.

Answer 2

You can try the encoded character equivalent to what you are trying to input. Try using URL encoding on the payload portion of your input to bypass this filter.

For instance, you can URL encode "=" to %3D or URL encode <img src=x onerror=alert(0)> to %3Cimg+src%3Dx+onerror%3Dalert%280%29%3E

This will bypass the filter if it is expecting "="

Alternatively, since it looks like you are running this on your localhost, use a proxy tool such as Burp Suite to intercept your requests/responses, you can play around with different payloads to test your XSS payloads.

Answer 3

you should encode it. something like this will work:

 eval(String.fromCharCode(/*list of codes of payload*/)) 

you need to split payload into the caracters and convert them one-by-one into ints. you can make a script for it.

also you might want to look at atob and btoa.