medium.com/tag/infosec· Sep 16, 2026· by Nitin yadav

Mutation XSS: Attacking the Second Parse

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🎯 Vulnerability: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
💡 Defense Fix: Enforce Context-Aware Output Encoding, strict Content-Security-Policy (CSP), and HttpOnly cookie flags.
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