medium
Single Answer
0Which of the following is an attack that seeks to attack a website, based on the website's trust of an authenticated user?
Answer Options
A
XSS
B
XSRF
C
Buffer overflow
D
Directory traversal
Correct Answer: B
Explanation
Cross-site request forgery (XSRF or CSRF) sends forged requests to a website, supposedly from a trusted user. Cross-site scripting (XSS) is the injection of scripts into a website to exploit the users. A buffer overflow tries to put more data in a variable than the variable can hold. Directory traversal attempts to change directories through URL manipulation to access files that should not normally be accessible to the web server or application.