Even the most trustworthy-looking website could trick you into giving up personal details through cross-site scripting. Here's what you need to know about XSS attacks.

A cross-site scripting attack involves a malicious actor targeting a victim by inserting surreptitious code through a website. “There are a few ways it can play out, but basically the attacker injects ...

Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a cyberattack in which a hacker enters malicious code into a web form or web application url. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

The vulnerability enables attackers to load malicious plugins, hijack sessions, and create administrative accounts on ...

However, this ubiquity and extensibility makes XSS attacks easy. This situation arose because whenever a web browser meets the directive in a piece of HTML, it simply executes the resultant script.

Cleaning up a website after a cross-site scripting attack may no longer be enough to protect its users Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

Just last week, WordPress 4.1.2 was updated due to a number of vulnerabilities, including a remarkably similar cross-site scripting issue reported by researcher Cedric Van Bockhaven that was open ...

TheHell said stored cross-site scripting attacks bypass XSS filters built into browsers such as Chrome and Internet Explorer. He added that such attacks normally go for as much as $1,500.

Combining a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability with a TinyURL redirect, hackers successfully broke into the infrastructure for the open-source Apache Foundation in what is being described as ...