Prevent xss in java spring boot

Security is one of those areas in software development where it’s really important you get it right. At the same time, it’s often easy to get it wrong, especially in teams that suffer from not-invented-here syndrome and refuse to adopt the best practices and state-of-the-art tools that would prevent many issues from happening.

Today we’re here to cover one very specific security problem: Java XSS.

We’ll start by defining XSS, talking very briefly about what it is, its types, and why it can be so dangerous to your applications. After that, we’ll walk you through a list of three XSS examples in Java and show you what you should do to prevent them.

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Let’s get started.

Java XSS: What’s This? Why Should You Care?

“Java XSS” is simply XSS done to a Java app. So, what’s XSS?

We have another post dedicated solely to answering that question, and we suggest you check it out.

Here’s the short version, though.

XSS stands for cross-site scripting. This is a type of attack that explores vulnerabilities in websites and injects malicious client-si

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