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Security Researcher Detected: You might have ended up here because your site vulnerability scanner found something interesting. Hi! I'm a security engineer and I'm having a good time interacting with the people and bots that are interested in information security.

You will hopefully find this site is well-secured and I'm not interested in being hacked. I'm interested in learning about how people try to hack me, though.

What is this endpoint?

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What an attacker could do

This malformed string is an injection or fuzzing artifact probing for reflected HTML/attribute injection; if reflected unescaped it could enable cross-site scripting or tabnabbing via injected target attributes.

How to defend it

Apply context-aware output encoding for all reflected input, add rel=noopener noreferrer to external links, and return a clean 404 for malformed paths without echoing the input.

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