Answer by spookylukey for HTML/XSS escape on input vs output
In addition to what has been written already:Precisely because you have a variety of output formats, and you cannot guarantee that all of them will need HTML escaping. If you are serving data over a...
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The original misconceptionDo not confuse sanitation of output with validation.While <script>alert(1);</script> is a perfectly valid username, it definitely must be escaped before showing on...
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From everything I've seen, it seems like the convention for escaping html on user-entered content (for the purposes of preventing XSS) is to do it when rendering content. Most templating languages seem...
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