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XSS Filter Evasion Cheat Sheet — Character Escape Sequences

Here are all the possible combinations of the character \< in HTML and JavaScript.

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). 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. < %3C &lt &lt; &LT &LT; &#60 &#060 &#0060 &#00060 &#000060 &#0000060 &#60; &#060; &#0060; &#00060; &#000060; &#0000060; &#x3c &#x03c &#x003c &#x0003c &#x00003c &#x000003c &#x3c; &#x03c; &#x003c; &#x0003c; &#x00003c; &#x000003c; &#X3c &#X03c &#X003c &#X0003c &#X00003c &#X000003c &#X3c; &#X03c; &#X003c; &#X0003c; &#X00003c; &#X000003c; &#x3C &#x03C &#x003C &#x0003C &#x00003C &#x000003C &#x3C; &#x03C; &#x003C; &#x0003C; &#x00003C; &#x000003C; &#X3C &#X03C &#X003C &#X0003C &#X00003C &#X000003C &#X3C; &#X03C; &#X003C; &#X0003C; &#X00003C; &#X000003C; \x3c \x3C \u003c \u003C Attribution: Adapted from OWASP Cheat Sheet Series under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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