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Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Abuse and Defense: Exploitation on Several Testing Bed Environments and Its Defense

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  • B. B. Gupta
  • S. Gupta
  • S. Gangwar
  • M. Kumar
  • P. K. Meena

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Today cyber physical systems (CPS) facilitate physical world devices to integrate with several Internet data sources and services. In the contemporary era of Web 2.0 technologies, web applications are being developed on several advanced technologies (e.g., AJAX, JavaScript, Flash, ASP.net). However, due to the frequent usage in daily life, web applications are constantly under attack. Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks are presently the most exploited security problems in the modern web applications. XSS attacks are generally caused by the improper sanitization of user-supplied input on the applications. These attacked use vulnerabilities in the source code, resulting in serious consequences such as stealing of session-identifications embedded in cookies, passwords, credit card numbers, and several other related personal credentials. This article describes a three-fold approach: 1) testing the vulnerabilities of XSS attack on the local host server Apache Tomcat by utilizing the malicious scripts from XSS cheat sheet website; 2) exploiting the same vulnerabilities on Web Goat; and 3) exploiting encoded versions of the injected scripts for testing the level of XSS attack prevention capability. Based on the observed results, further work is also discussed.

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  • B. B. Gupta & S. Gupta & S. Gangwar & M. Kumar & P. K. Meena, 2015. "Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Abuse and Defense: Exploitation on Several Testing Bed Environments and Its Defense," Journal of Information Privacy and Security, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(2), pages 118-136, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:uipsxx:v:11:y:2015:i:2:p:118-136
    DOI: 10.1080/15536548.2015.1044865
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    1. Bharti Nagpal & Naresh Chauhan & Nanhay Singh, 2017. "SECSIX: security engine for CSRF, SQL injection and XSS attacks," International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, Springer;The Society for Reliability, Engineering Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM),India, and Division of Operation and Maintenance, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, vol. 8(2), pages 631-644, November.

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