js-xss
Sanitize untrusted HTML (to prevent XSS) with a configuration specified by a Whitelist (by leizongmin)
xss-filters
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| js-xss | xss-filters | |
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| 5 | 2 | |
| 5,270 | 1,022 | |
| 0.0% | - | |
| 4.8 | 0.0 | |
| over 1 year ago | - | |
| HTML | JavaScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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.
xss-filters
Posts with mentions or reviews of xss-filters.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-08.
- Técnicas de Programação Segura em JavaScript
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How to Secure Nodejs Application.
As you can see in the snippet above, whatever the user puts in the search field, if not found in the database, will be sent back to the user in an unchanged form. What that means is that if an attacker puts JavaScript code instead of the product name in your search bar, the same JavaScript code will be executed. To validate the User input!You can use validator js or xss-filters for that.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing js-xss and xss-filters 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
Themis - Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.