Running a XSS Attack + How to defend

When working with JavaScript, there is one especially mean attack you want to defend against: A Cross-Site Scripting attack (XSS). In this tutorial, you're going to learn how a XSS attack works (we're going to launch one!) and how you may defend.

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Starting Source Code: https://github.com/academind/xss-example
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