ReactSecurity - Sanitize Content When Setting InnerHTML

Published: 21 April 2020
on channel: Holodeck

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There are some situations where we need to set the InnerHTML of an element in our app. For example, we may need to render pre-formatted HTML content, possibly supplied by a user.

Setting an element's InnerHTML is a very common cross-site scripting attack vector. A user may supply some content that triggers a script to execute in our app, putting our users at risk.

Let's see how to sanitize content when setting the InnerHTML of an element in a React application.

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