Detailedlikelihood: Highseverity: HighDraft
CAPEC-32XSS Through HTTP Query Strings
Abstraction
Detailed
Status
Draft
Likelihood
High
Severity
High
Description
An adversary embeds malicious script code in the parameters of an HTTP query string and convinces a victim to submit the HTTP request that contains the query string to a vulnerable web application. The web application then procedes to use the values parameters without properly validation them first and generates the HTML code that will be executed by the victim's browser.
Related weaknesses· 1
Related attack patterns· 3
Exploits1
| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)cwe-80 | 100% | live |
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.