What is Cross Site Scripting? How to Protect against XSS Attacks

Cross Site Scripting is the second most prevalent issue in the Open Source Foundation for Application Security (OWASP) top 10 – it's found in roughly 2/3 of all applications. While automated tools can find some of these problems, there are also automated tools designed to detect and exploit these
Cross Site Scripting is the second most prevalent issue in the Open Source Foundation for Application Security (OWASP) top 10 – it's found in roughly 2/3 of all applications. While automated tools can find some of these problems, there are also automated tools designed to detect and exploit these vulnerabilities. What is Cross-Site Scripting? XSS attacks occur when data enters a web application through an untrusted source (like a web request), and is sent to a user without being validated.

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