# PS - DomXSS
## Lab: DOM XSS in document.write sink using source location.search
* [Lab on PortSwigger](https://portswigger.net/web-security/cross-site-scripting/dom-based/lab-document-write-sink)
### Instructions
* We click on access the lab
### Resolution
* We land on this page
* It mentions a location.search source in the title so the search box is definitely where we should try our injection.
* Here is the js code for the search
```js
function trackSearch(query) {
document.write('
');
}
var query = (new URLSearchParams(window.location.search)).get('search');
if(query) {
trackSearch(query);
}
```
* We can see that it is taking our input and it will be used in the img tag.
* Indeed if we type test for example, we can then if we inspect the element see that our string is in the src of the image tag
* So to get an alert we can try to close the img tag and put another tag with an alert in it let's try this `">`
* And it works!
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