A Survey on Web Application Attacks

Abstract:- Web applications today provide a universal way to access information. The internet has changed the lifestyle of people today. Web is being used by the organizations for providing their business. The so many uses of web applications led to security related challenges, as the number of applications over the internet increases so the number of attacks is also upsurge. Hence, security becomes one of the major concerns in web applications. Researchers have developed various approaches for the detection and prevention of various web applications including server side and client side approaches. This paper presents the various popular and common web application attacks found over the internet such as Injection attacks (SQLI), broken authentication and session management attacks and Cross-site scripting attacks (XSS), the various countermeasures taken and their respective limitations. It also proposes the future possibilities and feasible countermeasures against these attacks