What Do You Mean By Cross Site Scripting?

Cross Site Scripting generally tends to refer to an injected attack which is from the side of the client code, where, the one who is attacking has all the authorities in executive scripts which are malicious into an application of web or a website which is legitimate. Such kinds of attack are generally seen where the web application is making use of the non-encoded or non-validated inputs of the users inside the range of the output which is generated.

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) is a security vulnerability usually found in websites and/or web applications that accept user input. Examples of these include search engines, login forms, message boards and comment boxes.
Examples of reflected cross-site scripting attacks include when an attacker stores malicious script in the data sent from a website’s search or contact form. A typical example of reflected cross-site scripting is a search form, where visitors sends their search query to the server, and only they see the result.

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