Developing a security model to protect websites from cross-site scripting attacks using ZEND framework application

The growth of the Internet in recent years has led to the spread of information crimes in renewed and changing ways. This paper is focused on understanding the issues surrounding cross-site scripting attacks and providing a simple and effective security model to protect websites from such attacks using ZEND framework application. The security model is based on a sequence of levels and is built using a combination of tools. Tests against a set of cross-site scripting attacks show the proposed model effectiveness and convenience.