Chapter 9, Problem 20E

Explanation of Solution

a.

XSS attack:

• XSS attack refers to a vulnerable attack, which injects the malicious code into the user’s application.
  • It will directly attack the user who uses this site.
• This kind of attacks usually happens in online businesses.
• This malicious code will make the user account compromised and will steal the private data of the user...

Explanation of Solution

b.

Detecting XSS attacks:

• The URL send to the server is checked by the HTTP protocol to prevent the XSS attacks to the website...