Attempted exploit?

Question

I saw that my nopCommerce site had a logged search for:

ADw-script AD4-alert(202) ADw-/script AD4-

I\'m a bit curious though what they were try

Answer 1

Yup , they were just checking if your site is vulnerable for XSS.

Read http://www.cgisecurity.com/xss-faq.html

and Rsnakes XSS cheat-sheet

http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html

for more info