Patent ID: 9223977
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of testing a Web-based application for security vulnerabilities, the method comprising: communicating at least one client request comprising a payload having a unique identifier to the Web-based application; responsive to communicating the at least one client request comprising the payload having the unique identifier to the Web-based application, receiving from the Web-based application response hypertext markup language (HTML) and an associated Document Object Model (DOM) object, the DOM object including the unique identifier communicated to the web-based application in the payload; via a processor, identifying in the DOM object the unique identifier communicated to the web-based application in the payload; and responsive to identifying in the received DOM object the unique identifier communicated to the web-based application in the payload, identifying as un-trusted a section of the received DOM object comprising content corresponding to the payload, which is identified in the received DOM object via the unique identifier.