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XSS is a known vulnerability in social hacking as well as shared data. Imagine an app which allows you to paste an input which will later be rendered as HTML. A
by runarberg 5y ago
XSS is a known vulnerability in social hacking as well as shared data. Imagine an app which allows you to paste an input which will later be rendered as HTML. An attacker can create a malicious script and persuade the victims to copy it and paste in their app. This script might include `fetch` calls to a server the attacker controls which the attacker can use to spy or install malware on the victims machine.
The above example is a vulnerability in the app just the same, it just requires the attacker to consider different avenues of delivery (such as sharing the malicious script on a forum) then in traditional server connected apps.