14.27 Lab: Reflected XSS with event handlers and href attributes blocked

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Description - Portswigger Lab
This lab contains a reflected XSS vulnerability with some whitelisted tags, but all events and anchor href attributes are blocked. To solve the lab, perform a cross-site scripting attack that injects a vector that, when clicked, calls the alert function | Karthikeyan Nagaraj
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