DOMpohjaista
DOMpohjaista is a Finnish term that translates to "DOM-based" in English. It refers to a type of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that occurs when an attacker manipulates the Document Object Model (DOM) of a web page to execute malicious scripts. Unlike other XSS attacks that might inject scripts into the server-side code or the HTML response, DOMpohjaista attacks exploit vulnerabilities in how client-side JavaScript code handles user-supplied data and modifies the DOM.
The core of a DOMpohjaista vulnerability lies in client-side scripts that read data from a source that
Detecting and preventing DOMpohjaista vulnerabilities requires careful examination of client-side JavaScript code. Developers must ensure that