An Analysis of the Prevention and Detection of Cross Site Scripting Attack

Abstract

As technology progresses, web based applications are becoming more vulnerable and threats to it’s security is increasing day by day. One of the ways by which an attacker can attack any web application is cross site scripting attack. The loop holes in a web based application can be exploited by a hacker in ways like, session-hijacking, cookie-stealing, malicious redirection etc. In this survey paper we focuses on the current XSS attack detection techniques and their limitations.