About the XSSAudit
Why Was the XSSAudit Feature Removed in Chrome? The Google Security Team proposed to the Chrome development team to remove the XSSAudit feature. Although the only rationale provided was that the feature could be bypassed (as argued in a paper by evn@google.com), it initially seemed unlikely that removal would proceed. However, it was ultimately decided that the feature would be completely eliminated in Chrome. The main point of the paper is that bypass methods using targets within new JavaScript frameworks are difficult to defend against. Therefore, it proposes a shift from the existing mitigation approach (the xssaudit filter) to an isolation/prevention method, namely Content Security Policy (CSP). ...