Report on Vulnerabilities in Web Applications
Khairnar Chaitali H, V. Kala, M. Tech Scholar · 2014
Nowadays Internet and web applications are more useful in day to day life. Most of the communications and transactions are done with the help of web applications. When the term web application comes in mind, security is a major concern that we have to deal with it. Vulnerabilities in web applications are free solicitations for the attacks and malicious users to perform harmful activities. Most perceptible attacks are Sql Injection and cross site scripting attacks. Crafted user input at the front end side provided by the attacker, performs undesirable changes at the back end side or in a database. Sql Injection and cross site scripting attacks are prominently used by the attacker to gain the user credentials or unauthorized access for performing attacks or future attacks. Various techniques are proposed to address this issue and each one has its own consequences. This paper is a review of all web application vulnerabilities and their proposed methods for the detection and prevention against Sql injection and cross site scripting attacks.