Free Guide:Cross-Site Scripting
Cross-Site Scripting (also known as XSS) is one of the most common application-layer web attacks. XSS vulnerabilities target scripts embedded in a page which are executed on the client-side (in the user’s web browser) rather than on the server-side. XSS in itself is a threat which is brought about by the internet security weaknesses of client-side scripting languages such as HTML and JavaScript. The concept of XSS is to manipulate client-side scripts of a web application to execute in the manner desired by the malicious user.
Categories: Internet Security, Security Testing Tags: cross site scripting, Free Guide, Internet Security, testing
Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library
The Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library (Anti-XSS) is an encoding library designed to help developers protect their ASP.NET web-based applications from XSS attacks. This encoding libraries uses the white-listing technique – sometimes referred to as the principle of inclusions – to provide protection against XSS attacks. This approach works by first defining a valid or allowable set of characters, and encodes anything outside this set.The white-listing approach provides several advantages over other encoding schemes.
Categories: Internet Security Tags: AntiXSS, cross site scripting, XSS
PHP XSS (cross site scripting) filter function
Hi all as we know about XSS attack there should be some method to prevent XSS attack. While surfing on internet I came across some code to filter PHP XSS attacks. License: This code is public domain, you are free to do whatever you want with it, including adding it to your own project which can be under any license. Usage: Put this in a function, run *every* variable passed in through it.
Categories: Concept, Internet Security Tags: cross site scripting, PHP XSS filter function, stop xss attack, XSS security
Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
Cross Site Scripting is a condition in which data that is sent in a request to a web server, at some point either immediately or at a later time, is re-displayed to a user, typically unaltered. If this data contained any HTML syntax it would be interpreted by the user’s web browser. This data can contain malicious content to compromise the victim’s machine via web browser exploits, exploit domain trust, or display erroneous information or pages that may trick users in to supplying information to another site. Cross Site Scripting can contain harmful JavaScript that will send their session credentials [...]
Categories: Concept, Internet Security Tags: cross site scripting, XSS
