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XSS PEEKER: Dissecting the XSS Exploitation Techniques and Fuzzing Mechanisms of Blackbox Web Application Scanners

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Black-box vulnerability scanners can miss a non-negligible portion of vulnerabilities. This is true even for cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, which are relatively simple to spot. In this paper, we focus on this vulnerability class, and systematically explore 6 black-box scanners to uncover how they detect XSS vulnerabilities, and obtain useful insights to understand their limitations and design better detection methods. A novelty of our workflow is the retrofitting of the testbed so as to accommodate payloads that triggered no vulnerabilities in the initial set. This has the benefit of creating a systematic process to increase the number of test cases, which was not considered by previous testbed-driven approaches.
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hal-01369557 , version 1 (21-09-2016)

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Enrico Bazzoli, Claudio Criscione, Federico Maggi, Stefano Zanero. XSS PEEKER: Dissecting the XSS Exploitation Techniques and Fuzzing Mechanisms of Blackbox Web Application Scanners. 31st IFIP International Information Security and Privacy Conference (SEC), May 2016, Ghent, Belgium. pp.243-258, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-33630-5_17⟩. ⟨hal-01369557⟩
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