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Summary: PortSwigger released a new Burp Scanner check for server-side template injection, a vulnerability it describes as generic and potentially affecting any web application that embeds user input in templates unsafely. The company says it found numerous zero-day instances in widely-used real-world applications, and James Kettle presented the research at Black Hat on 5 August 2015.
Why it matters: The vulnerability arises both from developer error and from deliberately exposing templates for rich functionality in wikis, blogs, marketing applications, and content management systems, and PortSwigger notes that sandboxed modes offered by many template engines can frequently be escaped.
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