August 2017
Beginner to intermediate
370 pages
8h 37m
English
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is one of the most common web application security vulnerabilities found in web applications. Using Cross-Site Scripting, attackers inject the the data or malicious code such as HTML/JavaScript code into web pages by sending untrusted data to the server. The attacker-injected data is not handled properly using one or more mechanisms such as content (HTML/JavaScript) escaping, leading to some of the following outcomes, which can all be called XSS attack:
The following are the two types of XSS attacks:
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