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how can i block xss?


pcman

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For intance

 

$mes = htmlspecialchars($_POST['message']);

echo htmlspecialchars_decode($mes);

 

Broken down:

 

Line 1: grabs the user's message, and if it contains the characters <html> it will return it as <html>

Line 2: takes the the users message "<html>", decodes the html special characters (hence the function name) and will return the message "<html>" without them being able to inject HTML, therefore you are virtually invunerable to that type of XSS.

 

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