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Graph showing the progress of the XSS worm that impacted 2525 users on Justin.tv. Justin.tv was a video casting website with an active user base of approximately 20 thousand users. The cross-site scripting vulnerability that was exploited was that the "Location" profile field was not properly sanitized before its inclusion in a profile page.
A reflected attack is typically delivered via email or a neutral web site. The bait is an innocent-looking URL, pointing to a trusted site but containing the XSS vector. If the trusted site is vulnerable to the vector, clicking the link can cause the victim's browser to execute the injected script.
XSS refers to an injection flaw whereby user input to a web script or something along such lines is placed into the output HTML without being checked for HTML code or scripting. Many of these problems are related to erroneous assumptions of what input data is possible or the effects of special data.
Unlike cross-site scripting (XSS), which exploits the trust a user has for a particular site, CSRF exploits the trust that a site has in a user's browser. [3] In a CSRF attack, an innocent end user is tricked by an attacker into submitting a web request that they did not intend.
Double URI-encoding, also referred to as double percent-encoding, is a special type of double encoding in which data is URI-encoded twice in a row. [6] In other words, double-URI-encoded form of data X is URI-encode(URI-encode(X)). [7]
Samy (also known as JS.Spacehero) is a cross-site scripting worm that was designed to propagate across the social networking site MySpace by Samy Kamkar.Within just 20 hours [1] of its October 4, 2005 release, over one million users had run the payload [2] making Samy the fastest-spreading virus of all time.
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Meterpreter (the Metasploit Interpreter) enables users to control the screen of a device using VNC and to browse, upload and download files. Dynamic payloads enable users to evade anti-virus defense by generating unique payloads. Static payloads enable static IP address/port forwarding for communication between the host and the client system.