XSS Filter Evasion Cheat Sheet — Character Escape Sequences
Here are all the possible combinations of the character \< in HTML and JavaScript.
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Here are all the possible combinations of the character \< in HTML and JavaScript. Most of these won't render out of the box, but many of them can get rendered in certain circumstances as seen above.
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