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(Unverified)May 28th 2007 8:11AM

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Many people don't realise just how serious an XSS vulnerability can be. Alot of times the view is "well its only Javascript!?"

In attempt to show just what could be done if a malicious user managed to inject Javascript into a page I wrote a post detailing some of the attacks which could be performed. You can read the full post and see the code examples at: http://foobr.co.uk/2007/05/javascript_is_for_hackers/

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