US Patent 11361072 Runtime detection of browser exploits via injected scripts

A computing apparatus, including: a processor and a memory; a web browser; and a web exploit mitigation engine, including instructions within the memory to instruct the processor to: insert a script into an incoming webpage, the script including instructions to hook application programming interface (API) function calls of a scripting language, the API function calls for a plurality of functions commonly used by browser exploits; observe information passed by a running script to the plurality of API functions; correlate the called API functions to a malware model; detect a web page making the API function calls as containing a browser exploit according to the correlating; and act on the detecting.