Web Application Security: A Comprehensive Overview

Posted on January 4, 2019 By Shawn Douglas

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Title:Web Application Security: A Comprehensive Overview

Editor:Shawn Douglas (Admin)

Publisher:Shawn Douglas (Admin)

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Table of Contents

• Introducing web application security
• Opening comments
• Checklist
• Miscellaneous points
• File inclusion and disclosure
• File upload vulnerabilities
• SQL injection
• Cross-site scripting (XSS)
• XML and internal data escaping
• XML, JSON and general API security
• (Un)trusted input
• Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
• Clickjacking
• Insecure data transfer
• Session fixation
• Session stealing
• Truncation attacks, trimming attacks
• Password security
• Comparison issues
• PHP-specific issues
• Prefetching and spiders
• Special files
• SSL, TLS and HTTPS basics
• Further reading
• Authors

by Shawn Douglas