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Relevant context: https://twitter.com/zofrex/status/1319286955314614275 Apparently the name used to be \"> LTD
\"><SCRIPT SRC=MJT.XSS.HT></SCRIPT> LTDI registered Be for a small company a long time ago. I thought it was clever. They folded during the tech bubble.
Nice to see Bobby Tables is all grown up. Relevant discussion on the Companies House Developer Forum: https://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/cross-site-scripting-xss-softw...
Not to be confused with the equally inspired https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...
On a related topic, the name of the company I work for starts with a colon. The rest of the name is a common adjective. As you can imagine, it is virtually ungooglable at the moment. Any thoughts on how to get around this?
And I thought Yahoo! (with exclamation mark) had it rough.
Would be it interesting to know why the name had to be changed?
Because there are a bunch of companies which do aggregation of information about companies, and not all of them used parameterized SQL queries :-/
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And who's problem is that?
On a "what's reasonable" level, or on a "gets you called in by a minister or MP to be yelled at" level?
This is not a prank, its the new Companies house search which still contains some kinks and I assume they had to work around a very specific one here.
My understanding is that the Companies House search is fine, but various third-party consumers of the list might not be.