Unsanitized user input detected in raw HTML string.

Description

Applications should not include unsanitized user input in HTML. This can allow cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Remediations

❌ Avoid including user input directly in HTML strings:

const html = `<h1>${req.params.title}</h1>`

✅ Use a framework or templating language to construct the HTML.

✅ When HTML strings must be used, sanitize user input:

import sanitizeHtml from 'sanitize-html'

const sanitizedTitle = sanitizeHtml(req.params.title)
const html = `<h1>${sanitizedTitle}</h1>`

Resources

Associated CWE

OWASP Top 10

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