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  2. Cross-site scripting - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Code injection - Wikipedia

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    Attacking web users with Hyper Text Markup Language or Cross-Site Scripting injection. Code injections that target the Internet of Things could also lead to severe consequences such as data breaches and service disruption. [3] Code injections can occur on any type of program running with an interpreter. Doing this is trivial to most, and one of ...

  4. XSS worm - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Cross-site leaks - Wikipedia

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    The attack employed a technique in which the input was crafted to grow the size of the responses, leading to a proportional growth in the time taken to generate the responses, thus increasing the attack's accuracy. [21] Independent security researchers have published blog posts describing cross-site leak attacks against real-world applications.

  6. DOM clobbering - Wikipedia

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    This can be done by leveraging other attacks such as cross-site scripting or by abusing rich text rendering features on a web page (for example, Gmail's email reader and WYSIWYG editor). [ 16 ] [ 17 ] This is crucial since DOM clobbering depends on the attacker being able to inject potentially benign HTML into a website.

  7. Self-XSS - Wikipedia

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    Self-XSS (self cross-site scripting) is a type of security vulnerability used to gain control of victims' web accounts. In a Self-XSS attack, the victim of the attack runs malicious code in their own web browser, thus exposing personal information to the attacker.

  8. Cheap and deadly: Why vehicle terror attacks like the Bourbon ...

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    Houser, the terrorism and mass-casualty researcher, said vehicle attacks are a concerningly easy way to rapidly kill and injure a large number of people because the attack starts and finishes ...

  9. Samy (computer worm) - Wikipedia

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    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. [3] The message on a victim's profile