Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) remains a prevalent and evolving threat in web application security. In this final part of the series, the future of XSS, evolving techniques in XSS attacks, targeted attacks, and bypassing modern defenses are explored.
Evolving Techniques in XSS Attacks: Advanced payloads, encoding and obfuscation, mutation XSS, and persistent DOM-based XSS are discussed.
Targeted Attacks: Third-party libraries and dependencies, IoT and embedded devices, and API and mobile app XSS are highlighted.
Bypassing Modern Defenses: CSP bypasses through improper configuration and subdomain takeovers are covered.