What reasons can result in legitimate long Web/HTTP parameter values? [closed]

I’m researching AI-based solutions to detect malicious web requests. I recently found this paper, showing that those web requests containing attack payloads are mostly malicious SQL injection/XSS attacks.
They carried out URL parameter ana… Continue reading What reasons can result in legitimate long Web/HTTP parameter values? [closed]

What are the risks of a user compromising another subdomain when domain controlled by one entity

A company controls a domain and all subdomains.
Apps running on client1.example.com and client2.example.com etc. each issue cookies named something like client1_example and client2_example to their logged-in users. Each cookie value is a u… Continue reading What are the risks of a user compromising another subdomain when domain controlled by one entity

Is it a good and safe to recommend programmers that APIs always encode ‘<‘ in JSON payloads to ‘\u003c’ to prevent XSS?

I know that there are other recommendations like correctly encoding the JSON payload and using the correct content-type, however, my colleagues insist in that this is an additional good recommendation.
I have talked about potential double … Continue reading Is it a good and safe to recommend programmers that APIs always encode ‘<‘ in JSON payloads to ‘\u003c’ to prevent XSS?