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February 16, 2025

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CISA, FBI urge software manufacturers to address ‘preventable’ vulnerabilities in web applications

By Jacob Livesay / September 18, 2024

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI are raising awareness of how developers can prevent a class of vulnerabilities impacting web applications, as part of a CISA series focused on how software manufacturer decisions impact the cyber landscape.

“Vulnerabilities like cross-site scripting (XSS) continue to appear in software, enabling threat actors to exploit them. However, cross-site scripting vulnerabilities are preventable and should not be present in software products,” CISA says in a Tuesday fact sheet, the latest...


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