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Potential XSS errors when using information from HTTP requests

Subject: Potential XSS errors when using information from HTTP requests
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:27:06 -0700
I've been seeing a lot of redirects like the ones below in J2EE
programs.       

1.      response.sendRedirect(request.getParameter("REFERRER"));

2.      response.sendRedirect(request.getRequestURI());
        
3.      response.sendRedirect(request.getServletPath() + toPath);

Since the URL the user is being redirected to comes from the HTTP
header, I was wondering if forging parts of the header may lead to a
cross-site scripting exploit of some sort. Clearly, it would be
dangerous to use this data as part of SQL statements. However, I have
trouble imagining XSS exploit scenarios.

Thanks,

-Ben

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