Cross site scripting (XSS) attack detection using intrustion detection system

Everyone is now relying on the Internet for our innumerable kind of work; this has increased the opportunity for attackers to corrupt data and make vulnerable. Nowadays diverse kind of attacks is being launched in Cyber Space among which Cross-Site Scripting (Web Application Attack) is amongst top attacks of all time. Proposed work, suggest an outline for a system that can detect Cross-Site Scripting (known as XSS) attack using Intrusion Detection system (IDS). This work focuses on the detection of XSS attack using intrusion detection system. Here attack signature is utilized to detect XSS attack. To test the usefulness and effectiveness of proposed work a proof of concept prototype has been implemented using SNORT IDS. It is observed that proposed system correctly detected XSS attack.