'Cross-site scripting' tears holes in Net security
USA Today article by Byron Acohido that details WhiteHat Security's assesment of Hotmail, Yahoo, Amazon, and America Online. (August 30, 2001)
Apache: Cross Site Scripting Info
How the attack affects websites hosted on the Apache webserver and Apache specific issues.
Bypassing Javascript Filters - The Flash Attack
Paper by EyeonSecurity explaining how to inject CSS attacks into Web applications which allow Flash content.
CERT Advisory CA-2000-02: Malicious HTML Tags Embedded in Client Web Requests
Advisory published jointly by the CERT Coordination Center, DoD-CERT, the DoD Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense (JTF-CND), the Federal Computer Incident Response Capability (FedCIRC), and the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC). (February 2, 2000)
CERT/CC: How To Remove Meta-characters From User-Supplied Data In CGI Scripts
Examples in C and Perl.
CNN.com: Schwab's Site Could be Vulnerable
Charles Schwab's online customers are at risk of having their account information accessed and their accounts manipulated due to the same software vulnerability that affected E-Trade's Web site in September. (December 8, 2000)
Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Security consultant David deVitry offers background information, a free CSS vulnerability detector, and a list of vulnerable sites.
iDefense iALERT White Paper: Evolution of Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
Predicts semi-automated techniques will aggressively begin to emerge for targeting and hijacking web applications.
Information on Cross-Site Scripting Security Vulnerability
Microsoft Technet provides a FAQ, overview of the threats posed by XSS, and suggestions for how their customers can protect themselves.
InfoWorld Opinions: Cross-site Scripting
Article on this often overlooked threat with links. (May 6, 2002)
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