Understanding Cross Site Scripting

Contributed by Hardik Shah

There are many techniques which a intruder can use to compromise the web applications. One such techniques is called XSS or CSS or cross site scripting. With the help of such vulnerability intruder can easily use some social engineering trick to PHISH the important data of a user. It can also invoke an automated script to perform some operations.

In this article I will try to show you how such attacks are performed and what precautions you need to maker sure that you don’ t lost you valuable details and other important information.

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