IMDEA PhD student wins prize in XSSMas Challenge

IMDEA PhD student wins prize in XSSMas Challenge

January 31, 2016

IMDEA Software Institute PhD student Pepe Vila won the “shortest vector” prize in the annual Cross-Site Scripting Challenge (XSSMas Challenge) organized by the security company Cure53. The challenge consisted on exploiting new browser XSS vectors and bypassing several security checks and filtering mechanisms in the shortest possible way.

XSSMas Challenge wiki