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Web Application Vulnerabilities: A Survey

by Vandana Dwivedi, Himanshu Yadav, Anurag Jain
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 108 - Number 1
Year of Publication: 2014
Authors: Vandana Dwivedi, Himanshu Yadav, Anurag Jain
10.5120/18877-0144

Vandana Dwivedi, Himanshu Yadav, Anurag Jain . Web Application Vulnerabilities: A Survey. International Journal of Computer Applications. 108, 1 ( December 2014), 25-31. DOI=10.5120/18877-0144

@article{ 10.5120/18877-0144,
author = { Vandana Dwivedi, Himanshu Yadav, Anurag Jain },
title = { Web Application Vulnerabilities: A Survey },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { December 2014 },
volume = { 108 },
number = { 1 },
month = { December },
year = { 2014 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 25-31 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume108/number1/18877-0144/ },
doi = { 10.5120/18877-0144 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Vandana Dwivedi
%A Himanshu Yadav
%A Anurag Jain
%T Web Application Vulnerabilities: A Survey
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 108
%N 1
%P 25-31
%D 2014
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

In the last few years, the discovery of World Wide Web (WWW) has grown very much. Today, WWW applications are routinely utilized in security critical environments, like e-commerce, medical, financial, and military systems etc. WWW systems are an organization of infrastructure elements, like web databases and servers, and application-specific code, such as HTML scripts and CGI programs etc. While the core elements are usually developed by knowledgeable programmers with valid security skills this ensuing vulnerable web-based applications and accessible to the complete web, creating easily-abusing access points for the conciliation of entire networks. During this paper, we survey the current approaches to internet vulnerability analysis and that we propose a classification along two characterizing: detection and prevention model and study these methods. Furthermore we describe the foremost regular attacks in contrast to web-based applications and explore the effectiveness of sure analysis techniques in characteristic specific categories of flaws.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Web applications security SQL injection Cross-side scripting Cross-site request forgery vulnerabilities

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