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Re:Looking at how many sites use vulnerable JavaScript libra... by merb on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:14PM (#15760171)
is still only an issue if you pass untrusted data to your js code.
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Re:Looking at how many sites use vulnerable JavaScript libra... by Klathmon on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:22PM (#15760247)
And there is a pretty good chance of that happening in most JS projects.

Anywhere you take or show input from the user (an input box, a URL query, displaying data stored by some other system on the DB, etc...) could be a vector for an XSS attack.

And it's not just data passed to JS, but data passed to HTML or any data that could make it's way into CSS in many cases!

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Re:Looking at how many sites use vulnerable JavaScript libra... by sakshyamshah on Thursday November 23, 2017 @01:24AM (#15763209)
turns out that most of times, untrusted user supplied data slips through JS codes https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2017-Top_10
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