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XSS Example
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Okay so an example of one way that websites can be insecure is XSS.
By all means read more on wiki.
XSS == Cross Site Scripting
It works like this....
Say for example so persons website has a comment box...
When you type a comment it appears on the screen.
Say for example the website builder didnt know about the dangers of XSS, and he didnt "sanitise" his input from the comment box before showing on the site.
He's just exposed every single person on that website to XSS attacks.
An attacker could type into the comment box something like:
"<script>alert("This comapny has stopped trading.");</script>"
in the comment box.
The server would show this html as a comment on the site and the javascript inside would run.
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Lots of examples of XSS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting

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