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Salt is unique (usually random) data passed into a hash function for password storage to avoid the possible usage of rainbow tables or similar attacks. Salt will not help against dictionary or brute force attacks, as the salt is usually stored together with the hash.

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CryptoJS.AES result always has same first few bytes?

If you decode the resulting cipher text with a base64 decoder it says: Salted__XXXXXXXXXXX Where XXXX changes, but "Salted__" doesn't. So I guess it is a prefix added to the ciphertext to define its …
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