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Detection of SQL Injection and Cross-site Scripting Attacks

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f a site is vulnerable to CSS. These attempts can be trivially detected. However, the advanced attacker may attempt to camouflage the entire string by entering its Hex equivalents. So the <script> tag would appear as %3C%73%63%72%69%70%74%3E. On the other hand, the attacker may actually use a Web Application Proxy like Achilles and reverse the browser's automatic conversion of special characters such as < to %3C and > to %3E. So the attack URL will contain the angled brackets instead of their hex equivalents as would otherwise normally occur.

The following regular expression checks for attacks that may contain HTML opening tags and closing tags <> with any text inside. It will catch attempts to use <b> or <u

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