Cross-site Scripting (XSS) has emerged to one of the most prevalent type of security vulnerabilities. While the reason for the vulnerability primarily lies on the serverside, the ...
This paper first investigates and analyzes security holes concerning the use of Server-Side Includes (SSI) in some of the most used Web server software packages. We show that, by ...
Abstract. This paper focuses on defense mechanisms for cross-site scripting attacks, the top threat on web applications today. It is believed that input validation (or filtering) c...
In this paper, we take the first step to address the gap between the security needs in outsourced hosting services and the protection provided in the current practice. We consider ...
We empirically analyzed sanitizer use in a shipping web application with over 400,000 lines of code and over 23,244 methods, the largest empirical analysis of sanitizer use of whi...