Detecting Blind Cross-Site Scripting Attacks Using Machine Learning

Abstract

Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a scripting attack targeting web applications by injecting malicious scripts into web pages. Blind XSS is a subset of stored XSS, where an attacker blindly deploys malicious payloads in web pages that are stored in a persistent manner on target servers. Most of the XSS detection techniques used to detect the XSS vulnerabilities are inadequate to detect blind XSS attacks. In this research, we present machine learning based approach to detect blind XSS attacks. Testing results help to identify malicious payloads that are likely to get stored in databases through web applications.