How to safe guard our web applications from XSS attacks? One app is vulnearable to attack, if it does not do any conversion of a special charecters.
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How to safe guard our web applications from XSS attacks? One app is vulnearable to attack, if it does not do any conversion of a special charecters.
You should HTML escape any input before outputting it back to the user. Some references:
StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml()from Apache Commons LangHtmlUtils.htmlEscape()from Spring