Universal XSS Vulnerability In Microsoft Edge

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Microsoft Edge XSS vulnerability

Two security researchers, Vansh Devgan and Shivam Kumar Singh, discovered a severe Universal XSS vulnerability in the Microsoft Edge. Specifically, this bug typically affected the automatic translation feature of the browser. Sharing the details in a post, the researchers revealed that they found this vulnerability when they visited a website in another language via the Edge browser and attempted to translate the page. The immediate appearance of popups led them to the discovery of the XSS. Briefly, the bug existed in the startPageTranslation function. The vulnerable code of the auto-translation feature improperly processed the “>” in HTML tags. As stated in the post,
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