The media has helped make cross-site scripting (XSS) a familiar term, and the attention is deserved. It is one of the most common security vulnerabilities in web applications, and many popular open source PHP applications suffer from constant XSS vulnerabilities. XSS attacks have the following characteristics: Exploit the trust a user has for a ...

An Ajax application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of interaction on the Web by introducing an intermediary — an Ajax engine — between the user and the server. It seems like adding a layer to the application would make it less responsive, but the opposite is true. Instead of loading a webpage, ...

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 ...