Preventing persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack by applying pattern filtering approach

Author

Yusof, Imran ; Pathan, Al-Sakib Khan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Int. Islamic Univ. Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

fYear

2014

fDate

17-18 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability is one of the most widespread security problems for web applications, which has been haunting the web application developers for years. Various approaches to defend against attacks (that use XSS vulnerabilities) are available today but no single approach solves all the loopholes. After investigating this area, we have been motivated to propose an efficient approach to prevent persistent XSS attack by applying pattern filtering method. In this work, along with necessary background, we present case studies to show the effectiveness of our approach.

Keywords

Web sites; computer network security; information filtering; Web application developer; XSS vulnerability; computer security vulnerability; cross-site scripting; pattern filtering method; persistent XSS attack prevention; Browsers; Information filters; Payloads; Security; Vectors; cross-site; filtering; pattern; persistent; scripting; vulnerability; web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technology for The Muslim World (ICT4M), 2014 The 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuching

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICT4M.2014.7020628

Filename

7020628