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February 20, 2025 109 mins

Episode 111: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin interviews Kevin Mizu to showcase his knowledge regarding DOMPurify and its misconfigurations. We walk through some of Kevin’s research, highlighting things like Dangerous allow-lists and URI Attributes, DOMPurify hooks, node manipulation, and DOM Clobbering.

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====== Resources ======

Exploring the DOMPurify library: Bypasses and Fixes (1/2)

https://mizu.re/post/exploring-the-dompurify-library-bypasses-and-fixes

Exploring the DOMPurify library: Hunting for Misconfigurations (2/2)

https://mizu.re/post/exploring-the-dompurify-library-hunting-for-misconfigurations

Dom-Explorer tool

https://yeswehack.github.io/Dom-Explorer/shared?id=772a440c-b0c2-4991-be71-3e271cf7954f

CT Episode 61: A Hacker on Wall Street - JR0ch17

https://www.criticalthinkingpodcast.io/episode-61-a-hacker-on-wall-street-jr0ch17/

====== Timestamps ======

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:01:44) Kevin Mizu - Background and Bring-a-bug

(00:15:09) DOMPurify

(00:29:04) Misconfigurations - Dangerous allow-lists

(00:39:09) Dangerous URI attributes configuration

(00:46:08) Bad usage

(00:59:55) DOMPurify Hooks: before, after, and upon SanitizeAttribute

(01:29:15) Node manipulation, nodeName namespace case confusion, & DOM Clobbering DOS

(01:36:51) Misc concepts for future research

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