js-xss
Sanitize untrusted HTML (to prevent XSS) with a configuration specified by a Whitelist (by leizongmin)
Themis
Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms. (by cossacklabs)
| js-xss | Themis | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 2 | |
| 5,270 | 1,925 | |
| 0.3% | 0.5% | |
| 4.8 | 4.8 | |
| over 1 year ago | 9 months ago | |
| HTML | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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js-xss
Posts with mentions or reviews of js-xss.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-07-17.
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Security Best Practices for Your Node.js Application
Encode output data before user-controllable data is written to a page to prevent it from being interpreted as HTML or JavaScript. You can use tools like xss for this purpose.
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Introducing xss-shield - protect your Express.js App from XSS Attacks
xss-shield is a powerful middleware package that helps you protect your express.js app from Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. It's built on top of the popular xss (https://www.npmjs.com/package/xss) package and includes additional features like strict typing
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Is there any package that trims html tags?
I personally always tend to use this one. It's lightweight, configurable and has Typescript support built in
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Storing user input html in a database for others users to see
Searching for XSS specifically actually comes up with a few - https://www.npmjs.com/package/xss looks solid. I was being to literal in my search! Should have tried bing.
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Browser extension - Integrate your features securely
There are a few libraries you can use to protect from xss. For instance the xss library on npm.
Themis
Posts with mentions or reviews of Themis.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-12.
- Themis: Strong, usable cryptography for busy people
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Backstage: cryptographic R&D internship at Cossack Labs
Now, the real world work starts. We introduce interns to the world of popular cryptographic libraries, help them to make their first OSS contributions, and let them practice with our cryptographic library Themis which provides a high-level crypto API on 14 languages.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing js-xss and Themis you can also consider the following projects:
DOMPurify - DOMPurify - a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. DOMPurify works with a secure default, but offers a lot of configurability and hooks. Demo:
sanitize-html - Clean up user-submitted HTML, preserving whitelisted elements and whitelisted attributes on a per-element basis. Built on htmlparser2 for speed and tolerance
openssl-android - a version of the official Android openssl setup to build standalone for use in app
xss-filters
tweetnacl-java - TweetNaCl in Java - a port of TweetNaCl-js