1. How XSS Works and Several Common Attack Types An XSS attack is an attack that executes malicious scripts to steal a user’s login state, hijack a session, and so on. The input sources for malicious scripts include Cookies, Post forms, Get requests, HTTP header content, and more. We usually call a code fragment used for an XSS attack an XSS vector.

django-xss-cleaner is a bleach-based Django XSSFilter toolkit that implements whitelist XSS filtering for GET and POST request parameters. The package ships with a set of built-in whitelisted HTML tags and attribute settings, and also supports custom extensions. Project address, https://github.com/shaowenchen/django-xss-cleaner 1. Installing and Configuring settings.py Add the middleware xss_cleaner.middlewares.CleanXssMiddleware to

If you use the Chrome browser to test XSS vectors, disable the browser’s XSS interception first. First, close all Chrome browser processes, then run: 1 chrome.exe -args --disable-xss-auditor --args --disable-web-security Enter non-web-safe mode. 1. Injecting HTML/JavaScript with the <> tags 1 <script>alert('XSS')</script> 1 '';!--"<XSS>=&{()} 1 2 //The quotes around SRC can be omitted <SCRIPT SRC=http://ha.

XSS is an attack technique that executes JavaScript in the frontend. With the popularity of UGC sites, the data generated by users has surged, and the ever-denser network of data blocks makes it easier to carry out and spread XSS. The damage XSS causes includes: stealing user cookies and personal information; hijacking sessions and manipulating users’ network data; launching DDoS attacks; tampering with pages, popping up ads, and so on.