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
