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title: "What are script injection attacks?"  
description: "What are script injection attacks?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2011-05-23  
updated: 2020-09-19  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1008/what-are-script-injection-attacks  
category: "asp.net"  
tags: ["asp.net"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What are script injection attacks?

Script injection attacks called Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks exploit vulnerabilities in Web page validation by injecting client-side script code.

This code executes on the user’s browser after the browser downloads the script code from a trusted site and then the browser has no way of determining the legitimacy code.

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

Script injection attacks called Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks exploit vulnerabilities in Web page validation by injecting client-side script code.

This code executes on the user’s browser after the browser downloads the script code from a trusted site and then the browser has no way of determining the legitimacy code.


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