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What is a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack?​

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An XSS is a common type of online attack targeting web applications and websites, the attack manipulates the web application or website to give the user client-side scripts to install malware, obtain financial information or send the user to more malicious sites.

There are many types of XSS attacks including:

  • Reflected XSS
  • Stored XSS
  • DOM-based XSS
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