Prevention of Website from Cross Site Scripting

The Web is an enormous part of many organizations and business activities. It holds hefty amount of confidential data which needed to be secured. Most Common vulnerability threat in Website hacking is Cross Site Scripting. Around 40% attacks on Websites globally occurred due to XSS (Cross Site Scripting). Cross Site Scripting targets both vulnerable and non-vulnerable website. To protect and prevent the website from XSS we must know the complexity and different ways of prevention. However, the research of finding the optimal way of detection of Cross Site Scripting is still in progress. XSS attacks can also be used to steal user information, such as cookies or session tokens, which can be used to gain access to the victim's account. XSS can also be used to inject malicious code into a page, which can be used to redirect the user into the malicious sites, or to execute malicious code on the user's machine. However, in this paper we will be focusing on XSS attacks and its types. In addition, this paper will introduce some techniques to prevent user's data from XSS attacks.