Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a cyberattack in which ... a person who wants to create a webpage writes an HTML document, which they upload to a web server; when a user wants to access that page ...

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

Illustration by Mark Todd In May, Web security consultant George Deglin discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) exploit that involved Facebook’s controversial Instant Personalization feature.

Cross-site scripting comes in as a close second ... Whether you realize it or not, you just ran HTML code (in the form of the bold tags) on their computer, albeit harmless code that does what ...

Hackers love cross site scripting (XSS). The range of mischief ... whenever a web browser meets the directive in a piece of HTML, it simply executes the resultant script. While this facility ...

Experimental support for CSP is intended to help secure Astro applications against cross-site scripting attacks. There are ...

XSS attacks are simple–all an attacker needs is a vulnerable website and a bit of basic JavaScript and HTML knowledge to disrupt a person’s life. In other words, cross-site scripting is a huge ...

Java can be used to launch a cross-site scripting attack ... groups or other pages where users may post text containing HTML tags can put your browser at risk. Facebook, one of the most popular ...

Web administrators beware: Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities are now far more attactive targets than more notorious bugs such as buffer overflows, according to new figures from Mitre ...

Cross-site scripting first received wide notice in February 2000, when CERT® Advisory CA-2000-02 Malicious HTML Tags Embedded in Client Web Requests was published. The original summary was ...