Django Django Security middleware What is middleware? Middleware is a program that acts as a bridge between two services/programs. Middleware should be like a plugin in any Framework. Middleware in Django Middleware is a framework of hooks into Django’s request/response processing. Django supports both Custom and Built-in Middleware. This blog is
Web Security Beware of Cross-site scripting (XSS) in Django Templates 1. Django Templates support Automatic HTML escaping. 2. Caveates in Django Templates leading to Cross-site scripting (XSS). 2.1 Safe Filter, 2.2 Unquoted Payload, 2.3 autoescape off 2.4 Variable in script tag
Web Security How to protect your cookie from getting accessed by malicious client scripts using HttpOnly A cookie can be accessed through javascript if it does not have the HttpOnly header set. An attacker who managed to perform XSS or run a client-side script is able to access the cookie if it does not have the HttpOnly flag set. Cookie with HttpOnly flag set is inaccessible
Web Security How to implement and test your Content Security Policy (CSP) Never let browser blindly trust any source of the content received from the server. Allowing all data sources by a web application can lead to execution of malicious scripts. Hence it is important to add a additional defence layer to mitigate and detect XSS, clickjacking and other code injection attacks
