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The persistent (or stored) XSS vulnerability is a more devastating variant of a cross-site scripting flaw: it occurs when the data provided by the attacker is saved by the server, and then permanently displayed on "normal" pages returned to other users in the course of regular browsing, without proper HTML escaping. A classic example of this is ...
Cross site leak attacks require that the attacker identify at least one state-dependent URL in the victim app for use in the attack app. Depending on the victim app's state, this URL must provide at least two responses. A URL can be crafted, for example, by linking to content that is only accessible to the user if they are logged into the ...
HTTP response splitting is a form of web application vulnerability, resulting from the failure of the application or its environment to properly sanitize input values.It can be used to perform cross-site scripting attacks, cross-user defacement, web cache poisoning, and similar exploits.
A common form of this attack occurs when a web application uses a cookie to authenticate all requests transmitted by a browser. Using JavaScript, an attacker can force a browser into transmitting authenticated HTTP requests. The Samy computer worm used cross-site scripting (XSS) to turn the browser's authenticated MySpace session into a ...
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]
“Unprovoked bites” are defined as incidents in which a bite on a human occurs in the shark’s natural habitat with no human provocation of the shark. “Provoked bites” occur when a human ...
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.
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