Jibbering Musings » Don't serve JSON as text/htmlAnother day, another XSS flaw, this one in Google again, but this is a little more interesting than the normal ones, what this one shows is how JSON results add an extra vector to attack that might be missed by your QA team. The problem here was that the JSON was returned with a mime-type of text/html, a browser will render that as if it was an HTML page, even if it's really just a javascript snip
