Paper Info
Title
Abusing Browser Address Bar for Fun and Profit - An Empirical Investigation of Add-On Cross Site Scripting Attacks.
Abstract
Add-on JavaScript originating from users' inputs to the browser brings new functionalities such as debugging and entertainment, however it also leads to a new type of cross-site scripting attack (defined as add-on XSS by us), which consists of two parts: a snippet of JavaScript in clear text, and a spamming sentence enticing benign users to input the previous JavaScript. In this paper, we focus on the most common add-on XSS, the one caused by browser address bar JavaScript. To measure the severity, we conduct three experiments: (i) analysis on real-world traces from two large social networks, (ii) a user study by means of recruiting Amazon Mechanical Turks [4], and (iii) a Facebook experiment with a fake account. We believe as the first systematic and scientific study, our paper can ring a bell for all the browser vendors and shed a light for future researchers to find an appropriate solution for add-on XSS.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-23829-6_45
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Browser address bar,Add-on cross-site scripting,User study
Address bar,World Wide Web,HTML scripting,Computer security,Computer science,Cross-site request forgery,Cross-site scripting,Client-side scripting,JavaScript,Server-side scripting,Scripting language
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
152
1867-8211
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
19
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yinzhi Cao129718.73
Chao Yang239939.13
Vaibhav Rastogi31187.97
Yan Chen43842220.64
Guofei Gu53361173.45