Content Security Policy and XSS defense

November 26, 2012 · by · in Security · Leave a comment

W3C introduced a standard to help protect websites against XSS by adding the following meta tag to the website response generated by a server:

Content-Security-Policy: script-src 'self'; object-src 'none'

References:

W3C Standard

Content Security Policy 1.0 is officially awesome

An Introduction to Content Security Policy

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