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XSS

XSS is the abbreviation of cross-site scripting.

Meaning of cross-site scripting

Noun

cross-site scripting (uncountable)

  1. (Internet, computer security) An exploit that involves tricking a victim into executing a malicious script on a target website, so that the malicious content is trusted as though it were part of that site.
    Synonyms:
    XSS

Origin of XSS

The X denotes cross. CSS was avoided because of the potential for confusion with the existing Web technology named cascading style sheets.

Questions about XSS

What is XSS the abbreviation of?
XSS is the abbreviation of cross-site scripting.

Words near XSS in the dictionary

  1. XSD
  2. XSL
  3. XSLT
  4. XSRF
  5. XSRFs
  6. XSS
  7. Xstmas
  8. XT
  9. xtal
  10. xtals
  11. Xtard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: XSS (page history and authors); cross-site scripting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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