What Is XSS?: An Overview
Summary
An explainer on cross-site scripting: how XSS runs attacker code in victims' browsers, the reflected, stored, and DOM-based varieties, and why contextual output encoding is the core defense.
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--- id: 4159 title: "What Is XSS?: An Overview" source_domain: bishopfox.com source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/what-is-xss" published_at: "2020-03-16T00:00:00Z" tags: ["web-security", "xss", "owasp", "injection", "output-encoding"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4159" lang: en --- # What Is XSS?: An Overview ## Summary An explainer on cross-site scripting: how XSS runs attacker code in victims' browsers, the reflected, stored, and DOM-based varieties, and why contextual output encoding is the core defense. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** bishopfox.com - **Published:** 2020-03-16T00:00:00Z - **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/what-is-xss - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4159