PHP: Preventing typical XSS attacks

PHP: Preventing typical XSS attacks

XSS attacks plague beginner programmers and are a significant vulnerability for commercial web hosts & website operators.  XSS means “cross-site scripting“.  These exploits work on the client side. Often, hackers put some type of JavaScript in content that users submit that allow them to steal the data from a cookie.  XSS attacks are pretty difficult [...]