Mitigating cross-site scripting attacks with a content security Policy

A content security policy (CSP) can help Web application developers and server administrators better control website content and avoid vulnerabilities to cross-site scripting (XSS). In experiments with a prototype website, the authors' CSP implementation successfully mitigated all XSS attack ty...

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Main Authors: Yusof, Imran, Pathan, Al Sakib Khan
Format: Article
Language:English
English
Published: IEEE Computer Society 2016
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Summary:A content security policy (CSP) can help Web application developers and server administrators better control website content and avoid vulnerabilities to cross-site scripting (XSS). In experiments with a prototype website, the authors' CSP implementation successfully mitigated all XSS attack types in four popular browsers.