Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Watch for Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Attacks in User Input

A web application usually accepts input from users and displays it in some way. This can, of course, be in a wide variety of forms including comments, threads or blog posts that are in the form of HTML code. When accepting input, allowing HTML can be a dangerous thing, because that allows for JavaScript to be executed in unintended ways. If even on

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