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Stronger Anti Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Filter for Java Web Apps
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper;
public class XSSRequestWrapper extends HttpServletRequestWrapper {
public XSSRequestWrapper(HttpServletRequest servletRequest) {
super(servletRequest);
}
@Override
public String[] getParameterValues(String parameter) {
String[] values = super.getParameterValues(parameter);
if (values == null) {
return null;
}
int count = values.length;
String[] encodedValues = new String[count];
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
encodedValues[i] = stripXSS(values[i]);
}
return encodedValues;
}
@Override
public String getParameter(String parameter) {
String value = super.getParameter(parameter);
return stripXSS(value);
}
@Override
public String getHeader(String name) {
String value = super.getHeader(name);
return stripXSS(value);
}
private String stripXSS(String value) {
if (value != null) {
// NOTE: It's highly recommended to use the ESAPI library and uncomment the following line to
// avoid encoded attacks.
// value = ESAPI.encoder().canonicalize(value);
// Avoid null characters
value = value.replaceAll("\0", "");
// Avoid anything between script tags
Pattern scriptPattern = Pattern.compile("<script>(.*?)</script>", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
value = scriptPattern.matcher(value).replaceAll("");
// Avoid anything in a src='...' type of expression
scriptPattern = Pattern.compile("src[\r\n]*=[\r\n]*\\\'(.*?)\\\'", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE | Pattern.MULTILINE | Pattern.DOTALL);
value = scriptPattern.matcher(value).replaceAll("");
scriptPattern = Pattern.compile("src[\r\n]*=[\r\n]*\\\"(.*?)\\\"", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE | Pattern.MULTILINE | Pattern.DOTALL);
value = scriptPattern.matcher(value).replaceAll("");
// Remove any lonesome </script> tag
scriptPattern = Pattern.compile("</script>", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
value = scriptPattern.matcher(value).replaceAll("");
// Remove any lonesome <script ...> tag
scriptPattern = Pattern.compile("<script(.*?)>", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE | Pattern.MULTILINE | Pattern.DOTALL);
value = scriptPattern.matcher(value).replaceAll("");
// Avoid eval(...) expressions
scriptPattern = Pattern.compile("eval\\((.*?)\\)", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE | Pattern.MULTILINE | Pattern.DOTALL);
value = scriptPattern.matcher(value).replaceAll("");
// Avoid expression(...) expressions
scriptPattern = Pattern.compile("expression\\((.*?)\\)", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE | Pattern.MULTILINE | Pattern.DOTALL);
value = scriptPattern.matcher(value).replaceAll("");
// Avoid javascript:... expressions
scriptPattern = Pattern.compile("javascript:", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
value = scriptPattern.matcher(value).replaceAll("");
// Avoid vbscript:... expressions
scriptPattern = Pattern.compile("vbscript:", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
value = scriptPattern.matcher(value).replaceAll("");
// Avoid onload= expressions
scriptPattern = Pattern.compile("onload(.*?)=", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE | Pattern.MULTILINE | Pattern.DOTALL);
value = scriptPattern.matcher(value).replaceAll("");
}
return value;
}
}
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madoke commented Apr 9, 2012

You should call stripxss on parameter names also instead on just values. take this url for example:
http://mysite.com/?pageIndex1262074=0&85018'\>\<script>alert(1)</script>

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ulinkwo commented Apr 10, 2012

@madoke Thanks for your proposal !

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should we block img aswell I have a resource
/error/abc/?err=blah%3Cimg%20src%3da%20onerror%3dalert(document.location)%3Eblah
which is executing the script in firefox though chrome is somehow blocking it before submitting to server

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