Unicode formatter characters lead to cross-site scripting in popular browsers

I'll be discussing some of the issues recently reported to Opera, Apple, and Mozilla at the 32nd Unicode Conference in San Jose next week. We discovered some issues with the way certain Unicode characters could be leveraged to enable cross-site scripting attacks in popular web browsers (aka User-Agents). These issues involve utilizing Unicode characters in ways which might bypass most filters, IPS, and IDS systems.

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