Squid is a free client-side web proxy that retrieves cached web pages for quick browsers and a reduction in bandwidth consumption. Malicious users can negatively affect Squid Web Proxy users by submitting links which contain arbitrary HTML or embedded script commands to websites. The malicious link must generate an error page, but the embedded script command or HTML will be executed within the actual error page. This opens Squid Web Proxy users to a variety of cross-site scripting attacks.
Squid is a free client-side web proxy that retrieves cached web pages for quick browsers and a reduction in bandwidth consumption. Malicious users can negatively affect Squid Web Proxy users by submitting links which contain arbitrary HTML or embedded script commands to websites. The malicious link must generate an error page, but the embedded script command or HTML will be executed within the actual error page. This opens Squid Web Proxy users to a variety of cross-site scripting attacks.