An XSS worm, sometimes referred to as a cross site scripting virus, is a malicious (or sometimes non-malicious) payload, usually written in JavaScript, that breaches browser security to propagate among visitors of a website in the attempt to progressively infect other visitors. They were first mentioned in relation to a cross site scripting vulnerability in Hotmail.
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“Alas! and did my Saviour bleed,
And did my Sovereign die?
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—Isaac Watts (1674–1748)