Cross-site scripting attacks can leave private, critical information vulnerable to cyberattackers. Learn more about XSS attacks and how you can prevent them.

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are often misunderstood as harmless glitches that display alerts in the browser, while in actuality they are one of the most powerful and malicious ...

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 ...

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.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) is the most commonly exploited vulnerability, according to HackerOne, currently the largest platform aimed at connecting organisations with a community of white hat ...

Netflix released Sleepy Puppy, a cross-site scripting payload management framework, to open source. The tool finds XSS vulnerabilities in secondary applications.

WordPress plugin vulnerability affecting up to 600,000 websites enables stored XSS exploit An advisory was issued for the ...

The Google Chrome team announces an experimental Trusted Types API to help combat DOM Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) security vulnerabilities. Google's Vulnerability Reward Program reports that DOM ...

Online payment provider PayPal has patched a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability that a Finnish researcher disclosed late last week.

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