What Is Sanitization In Web Development?

By Author: R Pande
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HTML sanitization is the process of examining an HTML document and editing the document that retains only the tags that are labeled "safe" and desirable. HTML sanitization can be used to protect against attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) by disinfecting any HTML code submitted by a user. Input disinfection is a cybersecurity measure to check, clean and filter user data entries, APIs and web services for unwanted characters and strings in order to prevent malicious code from being smuggled into the system.

Hackers use remote file inclusion (RFI) and injection attacks such as SQL injection (SQLi) and cross-site scripting (XSS) to exploit the interaction gap between the website and the server. They can encode special characters and take unauthorized actions that compromise security. Such attacks can be prevented by disinfecting the driveway.

An application receives requests and requests from untrusted sources that could expose the system to malicious attacks. Input disinfection ensures that input data meets subsystem and security requirements and removes unnecessary characters that could represent potential damage.

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