Jargon Watch

Cross-Zone Scripting refers to an attack method that lets content from one Internet Explorer security zone execute in the context of another. Presumably, the target zone is one which does not allow execution of the script in question. There have been many such attacks on Internet Explorer over the years.

Privileges is a term that refers to the rights a user, or in some cases, a program, has to other resources in the system. For instance, a user or program may or may not have rights to access files in a particular directory or to use a particular network facility like SMTP mail.