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Cross-site Scripting (XSS/CSS)

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Description: CSS (Cross-Site Scripting) is a security vulnerability that potentially enables a malicious user to "inject" code into a user's session with a web site. CCS is sometime called XSS to avoid confusion with Cascade Style Sheet. Here is a detailed paper about CSS: http://sandsprite.com/Sleuth/papers/XSS-Paper.txt.


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