How to avoid Cross Site Scripting

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Hi,

I am developing a project, where i m giving a Editor to the user.

And as it is a editor, forcefully i need to set VALIDATEREQUEST = FALSE for that particular page, also scripting tags can be easily inserted....

Now how can i avoid Cross Site Scripting here.

Proper responses are appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Posted 1-Jul-11 20:05pm

Muthu Nadar

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arathi_suresh · Answer 1 · 2011-07-01T22:37:00

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The best way to avoid cross site scripting is to use Server.HtmlEncode to all the input strings.

Posted 1-Jul-11 22:37pm

arathi_suresh

Updated 1-Jul-11 22:40pm

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