Sanitizing HTML to Prevent XSS Attacks Using OWASP

Sanitizing user-generated HTML is essential for preventing XSS attacks in Java applications. Two widely used libraries for this are OWASP…

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Detecting and Fixing XSS using OWASP tools

Much have been written about XSS vulnerabilities scanning. In this article we will try to go a little further and…

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Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and prevention

Variants of Cross site scripting (XSS) attacks are almost limitless as mentioned on the OWASP site (https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-site_Scripting_(XSS)). Here I propose…

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Anti cross-site scripting (XSS) filter for Java web apps

Here is a good and simple anti cross-site scripting (XSS) filter written for Java web applications. What it basically does…

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