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Grammar fixes and content tweaks to XSS section of security docs.

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Luke Plant 13 years ago
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@@ -12,12 +12,13 @@ Cross site scripting (XSS) protection
 
 
 .. highlightlang:: html+django
 .. highlightlang:: html+django
 
 
-XSS attacks allow a user to inject client side scripts into the
-browsers of other users. This is usually achieved by storing the malicious
-scripts to the database where it will be retrieved and displayed to other users
-or to get users to click a link containing variables containing scripts that
-will be rendered by the user's browser. However, XSS attacks can originate
-from any untrusted source of data such as cookies or web services.
+XSS attacks allow a user to inject client side scripts into the browsers of
+other users. This is usually achieved by storing the malicious scripts in the
+database where it will be retrieved and displayed to other users, or by getting
+users to click a link which will cause the attacker's javascript to be executred
+by the user's browser. However, XSS attacks can originate from any untrusted
+source of data, such as cookies or web services, whenever the data is not
+sufficiently sanitized before including in a page.
 
 
 Using Django templates protects you against the majority of XSS attacks.
 Using Django templates protects you against the majority of XSS attacks.
 However, it is important to understand what protections it provides
 However, it is important to understand what protections it provides
@@ -44,8 +45,8 @@ In addition, if you are using the template system to output something other
 than HTML, there may be entirely separate characters and words which require
 than HTML, there may be entirely separate characters and words which require
 escaping.
 escaping.
 
 
-You should also be very careful when storing HTML to the database especially
-when that HTML will be retrieved and displayed.
+You should also be very careful when storing HTML in the database, especially
+when that HTML is retrieved and displayed.
 
 
 Cross site request forgery (CSRF) protection
 Cross site request forgery (CSRF) protection
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