jargon

Frontend & browser·Browser security

the search term from the query string was echoed back into the page without being escaped.

Reflected XSS

The variant where the payload arrives in the request and is echoed straight back in the response. It requires the victim to follow a crafted link, which makes it narrower than the stored kind and still perfectly effective in a phishing email. Error pages and search result headings are where it usually hides, because those are the strings nobody thinks of as user input.

Commonly confused with