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Web Application Security: A Comprehensive Overview

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of "common web application security issues and methods how to prevent them." The content originates from the associated Wikibook, found here, and is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. The original was cut into numerous short chapters and also published in a one-page print-friendly format. The latter is the version used here. The associated Wikipedia article on the topic is also appended to give additional introductory context. A content listing is included for your convenience.

1. Intro and checklist
2. Miscellaneous points
3. File inclusion and disclosure
4. File upload vulnerabilities
5. SQL injection
6. Cross-site scripting (XSS)
7. XML and internal data escaping
8. XML, JSON and general API security
9. (Un)trusted input
10. Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
11. Clickjacking
12. Insecure data transfer

13. Session fixation
14. Session stealing
15. Truncation attacks, trimming attacks
16. Password security
17. Comparison issues
18. PHP-specific issues
19. Prefetching and Spiders
20. Special files
21. SSL, TLS and HTTPS basics
22. Further reading
23. Authors

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Web Application Security: A Comprehensive Overview