A Proposal and Implementation of Automatic Detection/Collection System for Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

  • Authors:
  • Omar Ismail;Masashi Etoh;Youki Kadobayashi;Suguru Yamaguchi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • AINA '04 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks target web sites withCookie-based session management, resulting in the leakageof privacy information. Although several server-side countermeasuresfor XSS attacks do exist, such techniques havenot been applied in a universal manner, because of theirdeployment overhead and the poor understanding of XSSproblems. This paper proposes a client-side system that automaticallydetects XSS vulnerability by manipulating eitherrequest or server response. The system also shares theindication of vulnerability via a central repository. The purposeof the proposed system is twofold: to protect users fromXSS attacks, and to warn the web servers with XSS vulnerabilities.