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If the author is here could I make a gentle suggestion to change “infected with” to something like “potentially vulnerable to”.

“Infected” means something very specific and I think its usage in this case comes off as a bit clickbaity and detracts from the credibility of the article.

The article referenced as the source of that statistic uses more accurate wording (though doesn’t cite its own sources):

According to various research and studies, up to 50% of websites are vulnerable to DOM Based XSS vulnerabilities.

Also, “Almost 50%” != “up to 50%”

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