Model Checking for the Defense against Cross-Site Scripting Attacks

Author

Yu Sun ; Dake He

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Southwest Jiaotong Univ., Chengdu, China

fYear

2012

fDate

11-13 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

2161

Lastpage

2164

Abstract

The scripting languages (mostly Java Script) have been widely used in the network application, for the sake of improvement of the user experience. This makes Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks one of the most serious threats to Internet. A model checking method for the defense against cross-site scripting attacks is proposed in the paper. Bugs of the e-commercial website are found and counterexamples are showed by model checking. An operation behavior is judged if it conforms to requirements of the website for legal behavior, so as to prevent XSS attacks from the point of operation. The automatic modeling algorithm for the HTML code is proposed and the case of the performance of the algorithm is presented.

Keywords

Internet; Java; Web sites; authoring languages; electronic commerce; formal verification; security of data; HTML code; Internet; XSS attacks; automatic modeling algorithm; bugs; cross-site scripting attacks; e-commercial Website; legal behavior; model checking method; scripting languages; Browsers; Computational modeling; Computer bugs; HTML; Web pages; XML; Cross-Site Scripting attacks; HTML; JavaScript; model checking; scripting languages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science & Service System (CSSS), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0721-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSSS.2012.537

Filename

6394855