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Building Web Apps with Spring 5 and Angular

You're reading from   Building Web Apps with Spring 5 and Angular Modern end-to-end web application development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787284661
Length 370 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 Shukla Shukla
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Preface
1. Introduction to Spring Web Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing the Spring Web Development Environment 3. Data Access Layer with Spring and Hibernate 4. Testing and Running Spring Web App 5. Securing Web App with Spring Security 6. Getting Started with Angular 7. Creating SPA with Angular and Spring 5 8. Unit Testing with Angular Apps 9. Securing an Angular App 10. Integrating Angular App with Spring Web APIs 11. Deploying the Web Application

Common web application security vulnerabilities


In this section, you will learn about some of the common web application securities as specified by Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) standards (https://www.owasp.org/), against which web applications need to be protected. Angular comes with a built-in support for protecting app against following security vulnerabilities:

  • Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
  • Cross-Site Script Inclusion (XSSI)
  • Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

What is Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)?

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is one of the most common web application security vulnerabilities found in web applications. Using Cross-Site Scripting, attackers inject the the data or malicious code such as HTML/JavaScript code into web pages by sending untrusted data to the server. The attacker-injected data is not handled properly using one or more mechanisms such as content (HTML/JavaScript) escaping, leading to some of the following outcomes, which can all be called XSS attack:

  • Deface...
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