GCIH · Question #109
John visits an online shop that stores the IDs and prices of the items to buy in a cookie. After selecting the items that he wants to buy, the attacker changes the price of the item to 1. Original coo
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John visits an online shop that stores the IDs and prices of the items to buy in a cookie. After selecting the items that he wants to buy, the attacker changes the price of the item to 1. Original cookie values:
ItemID1=2 ItemPrice1=900 ItemID2=1 ItemPrice2=200 Modified cookie values:
ItemID1=2 ItemPrice1=1 ItemID2=1 ItemPrice2=1 Now, he clicks the Buy button, and the prices are sent to the server that calculates the total price. Which of the following hacking techniques is John performing?
Options
- AComputer-based social engineering
- BMan-in-the-middle attack
- CCross site scripting
- DCookie poisoning
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