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However, most often this attack is performed with Javascript and HTML. It can be performed with different client-side programming languages.
And this is one of the reasons, why this attack is considered one of the riskiest attacks.Īn XSS attack is being performed on the client-side. Therefore with stolen cookies, we can log in with the other identities. As we know, cookies help us to log in automatically. In most cases, this attack is being used to steal the other person‘s cookies. The main purpose of this attack is to steal the other user’s identity data – cookies, session tokens, and other information. It can also be performed with the other methods – without any saved script in the webserver. The malicious script can be saved on the webserver and executed every time when the user calls the appropriate functionality. A cross-Site Scripting attack is a malicious code injection, which will be executed in the victim’s browser.
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