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Lab: Reflected XSS with some SVG markup allowed

PRACTITIONER

This lab has a simple reflected XSS vulnerability. The site is blocking common tags but misses some SVG tags and events.

To solve the lab, perform a cross-site scripting attack that calls the alert() function.

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