protect jsp pages againt xss

Question

i want to protect my website form xss, and i want to assure that all my data are correct and consistent, so i don\'t want to allow to add any scripts to my db, that\'s because m

Answer 1

Use some Filter to sanitize HTTP request data.

You may go for jsoup, it is very handy:

String unsafe = "<p><a href='http://example.com/' onclick='stealCookies()'>Link</a></p>";
String safe = Jsoup.clean(unsafe, Whitelist.basic());
// now: <p><a href="http://example.com/" rel="nofollow">Link</a></p>

Ref: http://jsoup.org/cookbook/cleaning-html/whitelist-sanitizer

Answer 2

http://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS_(Cross_Site_Scripting)_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet

Answer 3

In short, you can write filter which does proper escaping of User input(map to relevant URL mapping). There could be readily available plugin to do this but I am not aware.
You can refer to this thread XSS prevention in JSP/Servlet web application