How it works...

Due to the lack of input validation and output encoding, an HTML injection vulnerability can exist. The result of exploiting this vulnerability is the insertion of arbitrary HTML code, which can lead to XSS attacks or social engineering schemes such as the one seen in the preceding recipe.

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