The recommended value for x-xss-protection is now 0

The script will now recommend x-xss-protection is set to 0, in line with
the recommendation made by owasp.

https://owasp.org/www-project-secure-headers/#x-xss-protection
Jonathan Hodgson 4 years ago
parent a735ba14b3
commit a683e57409
  1. 12
      bin/.bin/webtest/analyse-headers

@ -110,14 +110,16 @@ test_x-powered-by(){
test_x-xss-protection(){
local value
value="$(echo "$1" | cut -d ':' -f 2 | grep -oE '[0-9]+' )"
if [ "$value" = "1" ]; then
if [ "$value" = "0" ]; then
return 0
else
echo "X-XSS-Protection" | drawInBox
wecho -e "The X-XSS-Protection header asks browsers to try and prevent \
reflected cross site scripting attacks. It has been replaced in modern browsers \
by the content-security-policy although should still be included for the sake \
of old browsers\n\n"
wecho -e "The X-XSS-Protection header used to ask browsers to try and use \
internal heuristics to prevent reflected XSS attacks. It has been depreciated in all \
modern browsers that used to implement it.
OWASP now suggests setting it to 0.
https://owasp.org/www-project-secure-headers/#x-xss-protection\n\n"
return 1
fi
}

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