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In a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack, the attacker

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In a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack, the attacker

  • Afloods the web server with requests to make it unavailable
  • Binjects a malicious script into a web page so that it runs in the browsers of other users
  • Cguesses the password of a user by trying all combinations
  • Dintercepts the packets travelling between the browser and the server
Correct answer: B

Explanation

XSS exploits a site that does not sanitise its output, so that the attacker's script executes in the victim's browser in the context of the trusted site.
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