XSS Attacks

220 Chapter 6 9 XSS Exploited

Introduction

Learning about cross-site scripting attacks, how they work, and how they can be abused by

an attacker takes more than just an explanation of a theory with a stripped down example.

As the clich8 goes, "A picture is worth a 1000 words," so consider this next chapter to be

your own Cross Site Scripting (XSS) photo gallery.

In this chapter, we look at examples of real exploits of vulnerable Web sites and applica-

tions. At the time of writing this book, all of these examples still existed; however, not all of

these illustrations have fixes.As such, buyers ...