Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
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Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are a type of injection, in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise benign and trusted websites. XSS attacks occur when an attacker uses a web application to send malicious code, generally in the form of a browser side script, to a different end user. Flaws that allow these attacks to succeed are quite widespread and occur anywhere a web application uses input from a user within the output it generates without validating or encoding it.
While using document.cookie is great to demonstrate the exploitability of a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability, to further demonstrate the risk we can leverage the following resources:
There are multiple articles on the Internet stating that the HttpOnly flag provides a false sense of security as an attacker is unlikely to wait several hours for a user to trigger the payload and obtain a session token. Rather, an attacker can leverage a more sophiscated attack to hook the user or perform immediate malicious actions.
