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Failure to Sanitize Paired Delimiters

CWE-157 · Variant · Draft

The product does not properly handle the characters that are used to mark the beginning and ending of a group of entities, such as parentheses, brackets, and braces.

Extended description

Paired delimiters might include: < and > angle brackets ( and ) parentheses { and } braces [ and ] square brackets " " double quotes ' ' single quotes.

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