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Is cookie-based XSS exploitable?

Today I've found interesting site that output your cookie value directly to the page, so if I modify the cookie value I can XSS myself. e.g <span id=statistics>Last visit: ...
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5answers
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CSRF protection with Session Id

To protect against CSRF, couldn't my page javascript just dynamically insert the session id from the cookie into the body of each HTTP request right before it's sent? The server would then just ...
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Guarding against XSS when setting Cookies based on URI?

I have a web-site written in nginx.conf — http://mdoc.su/ — which essentially accepts two parameters, an operating system and a manual page name, and does a redirect to a different site based on the ...
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2answers
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HTTPOnly Cookies: Security Depends on Client Cooperation?

I've been implementing HTTPOnly cookie-based session handling and have some questions about what HTTPOnly means. I realise it's a flag that gets passed around in the HTTP header when setting cookies. ...
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5answers
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Does setting the cookie-path protect me from XSS from another context?

Lets say I am using a reverse proxy with URL rewriting that provides access to 2 different applications http://www.example.com/app1/ and http://www.example.com/app2/. I don't want those ...
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2answers
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header injection + codeigniter

I'm reading through Mozilla's Secure Coding Guidelines, and found this statement: Don't trust any user data (input, headers, cookies etc). Validate it before using it I'm using the codeigniter ...
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5answers
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Is it possible to see if a script on a website steals session cookies?

I'm looking as some web analytics solutions, I know it sounds paranoid. but cookie-based web analytics need for you to paste their JavaScript code on your web-site. I don't like the idea too much of ...
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2answers
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Are PHP Sessions based on cookies or a cookie-IP pair?

I have a PHP website and my question is: If someone manages to steal my users' cookies via an XSS attack, is it enough for him to be identified as the user? Or does his IP also have to be the same as ...