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The web server will not be able to identify the forgery because the request was made by a user that was logged in, and submitted all the requisite cookies. Cross-site request forgery is an example of a confused deputy attack against a web browser because the web browser is tricked into submitting a forged request by a less privileged attacker.
[citation needed] It takes its name from the poem Beautiful Soup from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [5] and is a reference to the term "tag soup" meaning poorly-structured HTML code. [6] Richardson continues to contribute to the project, [ 7 ] which is additionally supported by paid open-source maintainers from the company Tidelift.
For example, if the browser-leak method relies on checking CSS attributes such as the width and height of an element, the inclusion technique must use an HTML element with a width and height property, such as an image element, that changes when a cross-origin request returns an invalid or a differently sized image.
Selenium Remote Control completely took over from the Driven Selenium code-line in 2006. The browser pattern for 'Driven'/'B' and 'RC' was response/request, which subsequently became known as Comet. Selenium RC served as the flagship testing framework of the entire project of selenium for a long-standing time.
Stopping an XSS attack when accepting HTML input from users is much more complex in this situation. Untrusted HTML input must be run through an HTML sanitization engine to ensure that it does not contain XSS code. Many validations rely on parsing out (blacklisting) specific "at risk" HTML tags such as the iframe tag, link and the script tag.
A WebDAV request may contain many sub-requests involving file operations, requiring a long time to complete the request. This code indicates that the server has received and is processing the request, but no response is available yet. [3] This prevents the client from timing out and assuming the request was lost. The status code is deprecated. [4]
After successfully stealing appropriate session cookies an adversary might use the Pass the Cookie technique to perform session hijacking. Cookie hijacking is commonly used against client authentication on the internet. Modern web browsers use cookie protection mechanisms to protect the web from being attacked. [1]
A web page may freely embed cross-origin images, stylesheets, scripts, iframes, and videos. Certain "cross-domain" requests, notably Ajax requests, are forbidden by default by the same-origin security policy. CORS defines a way in which a browser and server can interact to determine whether it is safe to allow the cross-origin request. [1]