This indicates that the mere presence of a script injected by the attacker is the problem, regardless of which specific code the script actually executes. Part Two: XSS Attacks Actors in an XSS attack. Before we describe in detail how an XSS attack works, we need to define the actors involved in an XSS attack.

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