Content Security Policy in Practice

The implementation of Content Security Policy to leverage web browser capability in protecting a web application from cross-site scripting attack has been a challenge for many legacy web applications. Typical web applications maintained over the years accumulate a number of web pages that do not follow a consistent design. There are no widely available tools to quickly transform legacy web pages to adopt Content Security Policy. The results of this research cover the outcome of implementing a set of tools to address this need.