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Asked: 2026-05-18T09:48:29+00:00

I’m writing a script that needs to write the current page location to the

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I’m writing a script that needs to write the current page location to the DOM, and I’m concerned about XSS. Is the following Javascript snippet safe from XSS?

var script = document.createElement('script');
script.setAttribute('src', 'http://fake.com?src=' + encodeURIComponent(document.location.href));
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);

I know that using document.write() to accomplish the same thing is not safe in various browsers, but I’ve not seen any source discussing if using the DOM access methods is.

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  1. Editorial Team

    There’s no need to use “setAttribute”:

    script.src = 'http://fake.com?src=' + encodeURIComponent(document.location.href);

    I don’t see where an XSS vulnerability would sneak in here. The server code at “fake.com” has to be “hardened” against weird values of that “src” parameter, I suppose, but that’s going to be true no matter what your Javascript looks like.

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