script kiddies pl.n. 1. very common the lowest form of cracker;
   script kiddies do mischief with scripts and programs written by others,
   often without understanding the exploit they are using. used of people
   with limited technical expertise using easy-to-operate, pre-configured,
   and/or automated tools to conduct disruptive activities against
   networked systems. since most of these tools are fairly well-known by
   the security community, the adverse impact of such actions is usually
   minimal. 2. people who cannot program, but who create tacky html pages
   by copying javascript routines from other tacky html pages. more
   generally, a script kiddie writes or more likely cuts and pastes code
   without either having or desiring to have a mental model of what the
   code does; someone who thinks of code as magical incantations and asks
   only "what do i need to type to make this happen?"


see also:
cracker exploit