Showing posts with label xss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label xss. Show all posts

Sunday, 17 July 2011

Cross Site Scripting – XSS (Hacking method)

Cross Site Scripting – XSS – The Underestimated Exploit
1. What is Cross Site Scripting?
Cross Site Scripting (or XSS) is one of the most common application-layer web attacks. XSS commonly targets scripts embedded in a page which are executed on the client-side (in the user’s web browser) rather than on the server-side. XSS in itself is a threat which is brought about by the internet security weaknesses of client-side scripting languages, with HTML and