November 2019
Beginner
550 pages
13h 14m
English
XSS attacks are carried out by exploiting vulnerabilities in a dynamically created web page. This allows an attacker to inject client-side scripts into a web page being viewed by other users. When an unsuspecting user visits a web page that contains XSS, the user's browser will begin to execute the malicious script in the background while the victim is unaware:

An XSS attack usually focuses on redirecting a user to a malicious URL, data theft, manipulation, displaying hidden IFRAMES, and showing pop-up windows on a victim's web browser.
There are two types of XSS attacks: ...
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