Closed
Bug 294212
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
META refresh pointing to an image URL loads image even if "Load Images" is unchecked
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: martin, Unassigned)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
When a META refresh tag appears in the body of an HTML document, and points to a
URL containing an image, the image is loaded, even if "Load images" is unchecked
in Options.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
In the instance in question with which I discovered this, a malicious user had
injected an META refresh tag as the body of an ad appearing on a freebie
giveaway site. Because the site was not properly filtering their input, the
browser was redirected to a picture of a donkey (Could have been worse ;-) ). In
trying to track down the cause of this behavior, I disabled "Load Images", but
to no avail. The redirect took place anyway, which is to be expected, but the
image should not have loaded.
Comment 1•20 years ago
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The "Load Images" pref doesn't block loading images directly, so a redirect to
an image isn't blocked either.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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