Approaches to Detect and Prevent Cross-Site Scripting Attacks on Websites: A Survey

Vol.2  No.4

Year: 2013

Issue: Sep-Nov

Title : Approaches to Detect and Prevent Cross-Site Scripting Attacks on Websites: A Survey

Author Name : Bharti Nagpal, Naresh Chauhan , Nanhay Singh

Synopsis :

The expansion of the Internet has made web applications a part of everyday life. The numbers of incidents which exploit web application vulnerabilities are increasing day by day. Due to the growth of networks and internet, many offline services have been changed to online services. Nowadays, most online services consists of web services. The ability to access the web from any place at anytime is a great advantage.However, as the popularity of the web increases, attacks on the web increases. Most of the attacks made on the web targets the vulnerabilities of web applications. This paper surveys the most popular existing XSS related issues, their Detection/Prevention techniques and tools proposed in last decade. These vulnerabilities are researched and analyzed at [1]OWASP(Open Web Application Security project).It tracks the most common failures on websites.Cross-Site Scripting(XSS) attacks are a type of injection problem in which malicious scripts are injected into the trusted web sites.

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