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> Also, if you are going to all the trouble of making an extension to inject your evil CSS into a page, why not go the whole hog and inject evil ecmascript instead?

That may just be for the proof of concept.

There are websites which allow users to customize themes of certain pages; such at Tumblr and Reddit. I believe these allow custom CSS. There are probably plenty of other places where it may be possible to inject CSS but not JavaScript.

So, it's worth demonstrating the vulnerability, even if the current way of distributing it only really makes sense for testing purposes.




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