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# Stored XSS in an Anchor href with Encoded Quotes
Stored XSS in an Anchor href with Encoded Quotes notes for PortSwigger Web Security Academy labs, including exploitation workflow, payload testing, Burp Suite validation, and remediation context.
### Stored XSS Into Anchor href Attribute with Double Quotes HTML-encoded
This lab contains an XSS vulnerability stored in the comment feature. Double quotes in the `href` attribute are HTML-encoded ("), which affects how to inject payload.
A saved comment can control the `href` attribute of the author's name in the comments section; the attribute is returned as an anchor such as `<a href="...">`, and the double quotes are encoded, but the anchor URI remains usable.
Submit a comment so that when the author's name is clicked, a `alert()` will run in the visitor's browser.
Use a JavaScript URI in the comment `href`, for example
```javascript
javascript:alert(document.cookie)
```
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