Illustration by Mark Todd In May, Web security consultant George Deglin discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) exploit that involved Facebook’s controversial Instant Personalization feature ...

Malicious SVG files on adult websites hide JavaScript that hijacks Facebook sessions, secretly liking posts, and potentially exposing victims to identity theft and credential harvesting.

Facebook, one of the most popular websites, is a likely place for JavaScript hacks, due to cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and the overall lack of security of Facebook users. This allows ...

Cross-site scripting comes in as a close second. Let’s take a look at how it works. XSS Scenario Let us suppose that you wanted to sell an Arduino on your favorite buy-and-sell auction website.

The cross-site scripting flaw could enable arbitrary code execution, information disclosure - and even account takeover.

Attackers are able to bypass the reflective cross-site scripting filter in Internet Explorer; a weakness that will not be fixed by Microsoft.

The cross-site scripting flaw could have allowed malicious code injection on the site, and could have led to visitors being redirected to a malicious site.

Hackers love cross site scripting (XSS). The range of mischief they can cause and the information they can harvest using XSS is amazing at first sight.

Web-Security: With Content Security Policy against Cross-Site Scripting, Part 2 Extended CSP directives help to protect applications efficiently against cross-site scripting.