Author : Sonika and Yogesh Kumar

Web applications are being developed at faster pace. Fast pace development comes with the risks of failure to protect from various cyber-attacks prevalent today. Input validation based attacks has been the leader since long time. One of the user input validation based attack is Cross Site Scripting attack. Caring for need of developers to cope with requirement to protect against XSS attacks we have proposed a framework called PXSS (Prevent Cross Site Scripting). Our focus mainly over the mitigation of all types of XSS attacks like Persistent and non-persistent attacks. Our framework has been fully evaluated to prove it significance and is available in the form of library code that can be easily integrated with all ASP.NET based web applications. We have also taken care of performance overhead that causes slow loading of web applications

Keywords: XSS, Input vulnerability, security.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.4, No.5 (Oct-2014)