Cross Site Scripting: Removing Approaches in Web Application

By reviewing the literature pertaining to XSS vulnerability, it has been found that many investigations have directed their focus only on XSS vulnerability detection, but not many studies have concentrated on removing XSS vulnerability. While PHP is the most common web technologies to build web application, this literature paper describes the gap that still exists on removing XSS vulnerability in PHP web application. This paper explains the presented methods to remove XSS vulnerability and presents the tools that are used to remove vulnerability of XSS from the PHP source code. There is no specific solution that can efficiently mitigate XSS incursions. More research is required in the field of vulnerability elimination from the PHP web application source code before deployment.