This weakness in an application allows an attacker to steal cookies, steal user sessions, and thereby gaining illegitimate access to the system. Sometimes Cross-Site Scripting can join other vulnerabilities to create a greater attacking impact on an application. According to OWASP Top 10 we have th...
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is a well known technique to gain access to private information of the users of a website. The attacker injects spurious HTML content (a script) on the web page which will read the user’s cookies and do something bad with it (like steal credentials). As ...
makes use of HTTP GET requests to occupy all available HTTP connections permitted by a web server. It takes advantage of a vulnerability in thread-based web servers, which wait for entire HTTP headers to be received before releasing the open connection. A variation of this vulnerability...
SQL injection, XSS (cross-site scripting), CSRF (cross-site request forgery), sensitive data exposure, XML parsing vulnerabilities, insecure file uploads, insecure authentication and authorization, insecure connection and communication and insecure routing and communication are common vulnerability points [...
Amongst the many unknown threats associated with it, Shadow Code exposes applications to malicious code injections, website defacement, data exfiltration, script attacks,SQL injections, ad injections, clickjacking, sideloading, and cross-site scripting. ...