A security engineer is analyzing the following line of JavaScript code that was found in a comment field on a web forum, which was recently involved in a security breach: Given the line of code above, which of the following BEST represents the attack performed during the breach?

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The code snippet is an example of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), where a script is injected into a web page to execute malicious actions, such as loading an external script from a specified URL.

A Security Engineer Is Analyzing the Following Line of JavaScript