What Is Path Traversal?

Path Traversal or as it is otherwise known, Directory Traversal, refers to an attack through which an attacker may trick a web application into reading and subsequently divulging the contents of files outside of the document root directory of the application or the web server….

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What Is Same-Origin Policy

Same-Origin Policy (SOP) is a rule enforced by web browsers, which controls access to data between websites and web applications. Without SOP, any web page would be able to access the DOM of other pages. This would let it access potentially sensitive data from another…

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How To Prevent DOM-based Cross-site Scripting

DOM-based Cross-site Scripting (DOM XSS) is a particular type of a Cross-site Scripting vulnerability. It uses the Document Object Model (DOM), which is a standard way to represent HTML objects in a hierarchical manner. As with all other Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, this type of…

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