How Do You Hack Websites Using Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)?
Cross-site scripting or XSS is a threat to a website’s security. It is the most common and popular hacking tool to gain access information from a user on a website. There are hackers with malicious objectives that utilize this to attack certain websites on the Internet. But mostly good hackers do this to find security holes for websites and help them find solutions. Cross-site scripting is a security loophole on a website that is hard to detect and stop, making the site vulnerable to attacks from malicious hackers. This security threat leaves the site and its users open to identity theft, financial theft and data theft. It would be advantageous for website owners to understand how cross-site scripting works and how it can affect them and their users so they could place the necessary security systems to block cross-site scripting on their website. • Label origins – The label cross-site scripting came from the process of putting up one site within the target website then injecting a Java
