Does an effective Content Security Policy mitigate a universal cross-site scripting vulnerability?

I am doing some background research into types of XSS and prevention and as I understand it there is not much any application can do against a universal XSS in a plugin or browser.
A last line of defense for XSS vulnerabilities is a good c… Continue reading Does an effective Content Security Policy mitigate a universal cross-site scripting vulnerability?

Why only script-src unsafe-inline is reported as a high severity finding?

I’m evaluating a CSP policy using https://csp-evaluator.withgoogle.com/. The policy is configured as follow:
default-src ‘self’;object-src ‘self’;script-src ‘self’ ‘unsafe-inline’ ‘unsafe-eval’;script-src-elem ‘self’ ‘unsafe-inline’ ‘unsaf… Continue reading Why only script-src unsafe-inline is reported as a high severity finding?

Web App Security: Don’t Let the Code Injection Grinch Steal Holiday Joy

This holiday season more and more e-commerce site operators will be deploying web app security solutions such as content security policies (CSPs) to protect themselves and their users against cyberattacks, including cross-site scripting (XSS), formjac… Continue reading Web App Security: Don’t Let the Code Injection Grinch Steal Holiday Joy

Safely render HTML template with inline CSS from trusted domain (it forces the use of "style-src: unsafe-inline" in CSP)

I am working with a form that a user can fill out to send an e-mail. As part of the form, there is a preview button that shows the user a preview of how the mail will look in a new tab in the browser. The e-mail template itself is defined … Continue reading Safely render HTML template with inline CSS from trusted domain (it forces the use of "style-src: unsafe-inline" in CSP)