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Allowing embedded style tags enables some cross-site scripting "attacks". For example loading images from another site to collect information from all browsers who view the page or loading unwanted ads into the page.

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Re^2: Why are STYLE tags not allowed in posts?
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Aug 14, 2004 at 00:02 UTC

    Another often-overlooked "backdoor" to loading data from third-party servers is the @import directive to pull in an external stylesheet.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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