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Day 10
You are moderator of a Wordpress site. It’s monday morning and you had already a cup of coffee. While checking comments on site posted in the previous weekend, you found a plaintext transformed code.
<img src=x onerror="alert(1)" />What type of attack was tried to check?
Best answer by mkevenaar
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Cross site scripting
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Cross-site scripting
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Cross-site scripting 😎
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Cross-site scripting
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It sounds like CSS (Cross-site scripting) attack.
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XSS was the correct answer: XSS attacks enable attackers to inject client-side scripts into web pages viewed by other users (stored xss) or by attacker itself (reflecterd XSS)
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I just found a real life example on this community:
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