RE: Hidden tag does not HTML Encode

2009-08-18 Thread Redfield, Jon
or "executeJavascript" attribute, as I can see the usefulness of not cleaning the data when pulling from properties files, but by default it should clean the data. From: Martin Gainty [mailto:mgai...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 11:19 AM To: Redfield, Jon Subject:

Hidden tag does not HTML Encode

2009-08-18 Thread Redfield, Jon
We're finishing up our first Struts 2 project (ver 2.1.6) and a security scan has shown that the tag is vulnerable to cross site scripting because it does not encode special characters. This feels like a bug, but is it? We've since learned to use the scope interceptor, however there are still