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Systemic error in struts - no HTML encoding is performed

           Summary: Systemic error in struts - no HTML encoding is performed
           Product: Struts
           Version: 1.0 Final
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Unknown
        AssignedTo: struts-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: jon+apache-bugzilla@unequivocal.co.uk


There is a systemic error in the whole of struts and all the example programs, 
so far as I can see - it is not filtering output through ResponseWriter.filter
().

Simple example of just one of these many bugs:
  alttag=A 6" plank of wood

  <html:img src="plank.jpg" altKey="alttag"/>

This is at the very least a bug, and may well be a security problem (in other 
contexts) due to CSS.

Hmm, it also appears to be a bug in JSP, in that:
  <html:img src="plank.jpg" altKey="altta&#67;">
should behave identically to the above, but it doesn't, because JSP is failing 
to un-html-encode the parameter before passing it to the Java code.

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