| Title | A comprehensive inspection of cross site scripting attack |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2016 |
| Authors | Ambedkar, M. Dayal, Ambedkar, N. S., Raw, R. S. |
| Conference Name | 2016 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation (ICCCA) |
| Date Published | apr |
| Keywords | ActiveX, Automation, Browsers, composability, computer security threat, Cross Site Scripting, cross site scripting attack, Cross site scripting attack (XSS), Domed based XSS, Electronic mail, Flash, HTML, Human Behavior, hypermedia markup languages, Java, JavaScript, malicious XSS link, Malware, pubcrawl, Reflected XSS, Resiliency, security of data, sensitive information access, Servers, Stored XSS, Uniform resource locators, VBScript, Visual BASIC, Web sites, XSS preventive measures, XSS vulnerability |
| Abstract | Cross Site Scripting attack (XSS) is the computer security threat which allows the attacker to get access over the sensitive information, when the javaScript, VBScript, ActiveX, Flash or HTML which is embedded in the malicious XSS link gets executed. In this paper, we authors have discussed about various impacts of XSS, types of XSS, checked whether the site is vulnerable towards the XSS or not, discussed about various tools for examining the XSS vulnerability and summarizes the preventive measures against XSS. |
| DOI | 10.1109/CCAA.2016.7813770 |
| Citation Key | ambedkar_comprehensive_2016 |
A comprehensive inspection of cross site scripting attack