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# 7) Reflected XSS into attribute with angle brackets HTML-encoded

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As a first step, I perform a search and check the result. The response contains the search term in two places.

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if we try to escape the value and inject img payload or script payload because the app encodes the brackets&#x20;

* **<** becomes **\&lt;**
* **>** becomes **\&gt;**

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so what we wanna do is to escape the value and add another attribute which the onmouseover to execute code without the user interaction

```markup
foooo"onmouseover="alert(1)"
```

click on search and now if we inspect the input it will be like this

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and we have solved the lab

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