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  2. XSS worm - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSS_Worm

    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.

  3. HTTP header injection - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_header_injection

    HTTP header injection is a general class of web application security vulnerability which occurs when Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) headers are dynamically generated based on user input.

  4. Cross-site scripting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting

    Cross-site scripting (XSS) [a] is a type of security vulnerability that can be found in some web applications. XSS attacks enable attackers to inject client-side scripts into web pages viewed by other users. A cross-site scripting vulnerability may be used by attackers to bypass access controls such as the same-origin policy.

  5. Cross-site leaks - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_leaks

    A URL can be crafted, for example, by linking to content that is only accessible to the user if they are logged into the target website. Including this state-dependent URL in the malicious application will initiate a cross-origin request to the target app. [ 15 ] Because the request is a cross-origin request, the same-origin policy prevents the ...

  6. Double encoding - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_encoding

    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]

  7. JSFuck - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSFuck

    JSFuck can be used to bypass detection of malicious code submitted on websites, e.g. in cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. [10] Another potential use of JSFuck lies in code obfuscation. An optimized version of JSFuck has been used to encode jQuery, a JavaScript library, into a fully functional version written with just the six characters. [11]

  8. HTTP response splitting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_response_splitting

    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.

  9. data URI scheme - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme

    It can also be used to get around cross-site scripting (XSS) restrictions, embedding the attack payload fully inside the address bar, and hosted via URL shortening services rather than needing a full website that is controlled by a third party. [8] As a result, some browsers now block webpages from navigating to data URIs. [9]