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Large Scale Detection of DOM based XSS

25 Million Flows Later - Large-scale Detection of DOM-based XSS

Sebastian Lekies, Ben Stock and Martin Johns · ACM CCS 2013 · 4 November 2013

Chromium's V8 engine and its WebKit DOM were patched to track taint byte by byte, so every character arriving at a sink carried its source and any encoding applied. Knowing the exact syntactic context let the tool build break-out payloads that proved execution instead of guessing. Crawling 504,275 pages from the Alexa top 5000 produced 24.4M flows and 6,167 confirmed DOM XSS on 480 domains.

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Document

25 Million Flows Later - Large-scale Detection of DOM-based XSS

Researcher

Sebastian Lekies, Ben Stock and Martin Johns

Published by

ACM CCS 2013

Date

4 November 2013

Format

Whitepaper

Topic

XSS

In the archive

• Ranked #8 in the 2013 Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques

Tags

• xss
• static-analysis
• javascript
• large-scale-scan
• measurement-study
• tooling
• owasp-a03-2021

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