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In addition, DOMPurify parses the id and name attributes of injected elements to identify if they can collide with existing global functions. [21] However, recent vulnerabilities related to DOM clobbering have been found in DOMPurify and similar libraries such as HTML Janitor, which indicate that these libraries only protect against specific ...
Also potentially dangerous attributes such as the onclick attribute are removed in order to prevent malicious code from being injected. Sanitization is typically performed by using either a whitelist or a blacklist approach. Leaving a safe HTML element off a whitelist is not so serious; it simply means that that feature will not be included ...
Cross-site scripting (XSS) [a] is a type of security vulnerability that can be found in some web applications. XSS attacks enable attackers to inject client-side scripts into web pages viewed by other users. A cross-site scripting vulnerability may be used by attackers to bypass access controls such as the same-origin policy.
Samy (also known as JS.Spacehero) is a cross-site scripting worm that was designed to propagate across the social networking site MySpace by Samy Kamkar.Within just 20 hours [1] of its October 4, 2005 release, over one million users had run the payload [2] making Samy the fastest-spreading virus of all time.
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Our genetic code does not change throughout our lives. However, sections of DNA can get turned “off” or “on” for a short while or permanently: The code has not changed, ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved a new type of prescription pain medication for adults to treat moderate to severe acute pain. The drug, called Journavx ...
Graph showing the progress of the XSS worm that impacted 2525 users on Justin.tv. Justin.tv was a video casting website with an active user base of approximately 20 thousand users. The cross-site scripting vulnerability that was exploited was that the "Location" profile field was not properly sanitized before its inclusion in a profile page.