XSS tutorial & filtering

I found this interesting site on XSS. It’s a good tutorial if you want to show a newbie/novice something. And certainly demonstrates XSS and cookie stealing quite handily.

http://www.steve.org.uk/Hacks/XSS/index.html

It’s a bit thin on the xss filtering side. There really should be a white paper on XSS filtering techniques. If not, why the hell not! The following looks like a good start…

http://www.ihtb.org/security/xss_hacking_exposed.txt

5 Comments so far

  1. Fugitif @ October 30th, 2007

    nice find,thx

  2. dk @ October 30th, 2007

    Ye some great links there Wooshy.

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  4. wooshy @ November 1st, 2007

    And let’s not forget, there’s michael daw’s very own cheat sheet!

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