Another unfortunate truth is that attackers can be more creative (in other words, dangerous) with the use of Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. [ref 5] Typically, attackers had to use XSS holes in a "single-threaded" world, where the attack was being carried out while the user's browser was in a ...

There are many kinds of security vulnerabilities. The most common vulnerabilities today lie in cross-site scripting, also known as XSS. Cross site scripting is generically defined as allowing malicious content into a site. Wikipedia defines XSS as, “Cross site scripting (XSS) is a type of computer security exploit where information ...