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 ...

Hypponen said before the issue was corrected, anyone with even a cursory knowledge of creating cross-site scripting exploits could have easily caused harm to Netscape visitors.

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 ...

Undetected malicious code with cross-site scripting Cross-site scripting is a common security vulnerability in web applications.

Cross-site scripting attacks happen when an untrusted source is allowed to inject its own code into a web application, and that malicious code is included with dynamic content delivered to a ...

Cross-site scripting comes in as a close second. Let’s take a look at how it works. XSS Scenario Let us suppose that you wanted to sell an Arduino on your favorite buy-and-sell auction website.

Attackers are able to bypass the reflective cross-site scripting filter in Internet Explorer; a weakness that will not be fixed by Microsoft.

Apple on Tuesday patched code execution and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities on Tiger, Leopard, Vista and XP in a Safari update that included 13 patches.Apple historically has delivered ...

The cross-site scripting flaw could enable arbitrary code execution, information disclosure - and even account takeover.

Online payment provider PayPal has patched a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability that a Finnish researcher disclosed late last week.