[whatwg] Security attacks on local storage

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Fri Feb 20 14:15:44 PST 2009


On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, David Gerard wrote:
>
> http://research.zscaler.com/2009/02/practical-example-of-cssqli-using.html 
> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/19/2055210

As Anne noted, this appears to be a bogus claim. I do not intend to change 
the spec here. If anyone sees an actual localStorage threat here, please 
let me know.

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