Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities Research Articles

Detecting vulnerabilities in website using multiscale approaches: based on case study

In the realm of modern web applications, security stands as an utmost priority. To address this critical concern, we've developed a versatile Python script with the primary goal of proactively identifying vulnerabilities and thwarting transient attacks. Leveraging various libraries, this tool comprehensively covers a broad spectrum of threats, including SQL injection (SQLi), cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (CSRF), sensitive data leakage, security misconfiguration, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) vulnerabilities, and secure socket layer (SSL) or transport layer security (TLS). This Python-based solution prioritizes adaptability, ensuring seamless integration of future updates to effectively combat evolving threats. Utilizing innovative methods such as SQLi and XSS payload injection, the script assesses the susceptibility of input fields. And addressing CSRF vulnerabilities, the script generates and validates tokens, fortifying defenses against unauthorized actions. Employing pattern analysis, it combats sensitive data exposure and security misconfigurations, adeptly identifying elements like credit card numbers, passwords, and headers. Furthermore, the script enhances overall security by scrutinizing SSL/TLS protocols and monitoring port accessibility. It reinforces DDoS detection by actively monitoring traffic patterns, identifying anomalies, and proactively averting disruptions.

Machine Learning for Web Vulnerability Detection: The Case of Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities pose a significant threat to web application security, enabling attackers to execute unauthorized actions on behalf of authenticated users. Conventional CSRF detection methods, such as manual code review and static analysis, are often time-consuming, error-prone, and inefficient. Proposes Mitch, a novel machine learning (ML)-based solution for the black-box detection of CSRF vulnerabilities. Mitch employs supervised learning, trained on a comprehensive dataset of HTTP requests and responses, to effectively identify security-sensitive HTTP requests and uncover CSRF vulnerabilities within them. Rigorous evaluations on a diverse set of real-world web applications demonstrate Mitch's remarkable ability to detect CSRF vulnerabilities with high accuracy, outperforming traditional methods. Mitch's automated nature eliminates the need for manual code review and static analysis, saving time and effort while reducing the risk of human error. Additionally, Mitch's scalability allows seamless integration into continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, enabling continuous security monitoring and vulnerability detection. Mitch's efficacy extends beyond detecting known CSRF vulnerabilities. Its ability to identify patterns and relationships enables it to uncover obscure CSRF vulnerabilities that may have been overlooked by traditional methods, including zero-day vulnerabilities. In conclusion, Mitch emerges as a powerful tool for enhancing web application security, offering a comprehensive and automated solution for detecting CSRF vulnerabilities. Its ability to handle complex web applications, uncover hidden CSRF vulnerabilities, and integrate into CI/CD pipelines makes it an indispensable tool for web security professionals. Mitch's adoption has the potential to significantly reduce the risk of CSRF attacks and safeguard sensitive user data. We propose a methodology to leverage machine learning (ML) for the detection of web application vulnerabilities. We use it in the design of Mitch, the first ML solution for the black-box detection of cross-site request forgery vulnerabilities. Finally, we show the effectiveness of Mitch on real software. In this project, we propose a methodology to leverage Machine Learning (ML) for the detection of web application vulnerabilities. Web applications are particularly challenging to analyses, due to their diversity and the widespread adoption of custom programming practices. ML is thus very helpful for web application security it can take advantage of manually labeled data to bring the human understanding of the web application semantics into automated analysis toolsMitch allowed us to identify 35 new CSRFs on 20 major websites and 3 new CSRFs on production software. Keywords: Mitch, CSRF, CI/CD pipelines, Security Token Service (STS), Same-Origin Policy (SOP).

CSRF Vulnerabilities and Defensive Techniques

Web applications are now part of day to day life due to their user friendly environment as well as advancement of technology to provide internet facilities, but these web applications brought lot of threats with them and these threats are continuously growing, one of the these threat is Cross Site Request Forgery(CSRF). CSRF attack is immerged as serious threat to web applications which based on the vulnerabilities present in the normal request response pattern of HTTP protocol. It is difficult to detect and hence it is present in most of the existing web applications. CSRF attack occurs when a malicious web site causes a user's web browser to perform an unwanted action on a trusted site. It is listed in OWASP's top ten Web Application attacks list. In this survey paper we will study CSRF attack, CSRF vulnerabilities and its defensive measures. We have compared various defense mechanisms to analyse the best defense mechanism. This study will help us to build strong and robust CSRF protection mechanism.

Towards an Understanding of Web Application Security Threats and Incidents

AbstractThis paper examines a variety of sources that provide web application security vulnerabilities and incident data. In particular, the research tracks the impact of SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting and Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerabilities. A comparison of vulnerability data versus attacks that have actually resulted in data compromises is studied to determine how the type of vulnerabilities relate to actual methods used to steal data. The paper concludes with recommendations for more secure web applications.