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Why must XSS output encoding match the browser context?

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  1. Every context uses SQL
  2. Encoding changes screen size
  3. Each context has different syntax

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  1. OWASP Cross Site Scripting Prevention Cheat Sheet cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross_Site_Scripting_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html Checked 2026-10-10.

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