Collected research

The Power to Never Be Wrong: Evasions and Anachronistic Attacks Against Web Archives

Robin Kirchner, Chris Tsoukaladelis, Martin Johns and Nick Nikiforakis · ACM CCS

Studies eight web archives using instrumented pages and crawler metadata. It shows how CSP or script stripping and server-side cloaking distort captured content, while future archive references and live-web escapes let publishers alter old snapshots. All eight services exhibit an evasion weakness, and seven permit anachronistic manipulation under the tested conditions.

Record

Researcher

Robin Kirchner, Chris Tsoukaladelis, Martin Johns and Nick Nikiforakis

Published by

ACM CCS

Format

Whitepaper

Topic

Other

In the archive

• Collected in the 2025 research round

Tags

• csp
• same-origin-policy
• xss
• dom
• tls
• measurement-study
• abuse-of-functionality
• owasp-a01-2021
• owasp-a02-2021
• owasp-a03-2021
• owasp-a04-2021
• owasp-a05-2021

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Robin Kirchner, Chris Tsoukaladelis, Martin Johns and Nick Nikiforakis, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 10 September 2026.