DOM-based attacks are a misunderstood, serious, and pervasive source of risk in contemporary web applications. The language that drives the web, JavaScript, is easy to understand and hard to master; ...

This new security feature was developed with the intent to protect users against one of the three types of cross-site scripting flaws --namely DOM-based (or type-0) XSS.

Verizon patched late last year persistent- DOM-based cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in its Message+ messaging client that could allow an attacker to control a user’s session.

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are often misunderstood as harmless glitches that display alerts in the browser, while in actuality they are one of the most powerful and malicious ...