Cybersecurity Foundations·Practice drills 10

Drill 24: Write a test — XSS, SQL injection and CSRF

Write one test you would add for this example.

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Write one test you would add for this example.

safe-query.jsJavaScript
// Wrong: input becomes SQL syntax
db.query('select * from users where email = ' + email)

// Right: data stays data
db.query('select id, email from users where email = $1', [email])

// Escape at the rendering boundary, not at input time
element.textContent = comment
// Avoid innerHTML with untrusted content.
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