WASC-Articles: 'DOM Based Cross Site Scripting or XSS of the Third Kind: A look at an overlooked flavor of XSS'

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The Web Application Security Consortium is proud to present 'DOM Based Cross Site Scripting or XSS of
the Third Kind: A look at an overlooked flavor of XSS ' written by Amit Klein. In this article Amit
focuses on a little known variant of Cross Site Scripting which attacks a user's client without
sending malicious content to the web server.


This document can be found at http://www.webappsec.org/projects/articles/071105.shtml  .

Regards,

- Robert Auger

articles_at_webappsec.org
http://www.webappsec.org

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