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Comment Re:Cross-site scripting?? (Score 2, Interesting) 360

http://www.apache.org/info/css-security/ has a good explanation and some links.

The basic example is that you have a web page that asks for the user's name in a text entry field and then displays "Hi [name]"

I come along and instead of entering my name I end the text entry with "> and then proceed to write javascript or whatever that performs some function on the server. It gets more interesting that that though.

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