XSS Prevention in Angular: A Real-World Before and After
Angular gives you better XSS defaults than most frontend frameworks. That’s the good news. The bad news: teams still break those protections all the time. I’ve seen this happen in real apps that started out safe, then picked up “just one quick workaround” for rich text, embeds, markdown, or dynamic links. A few months later, the app is full of bypassSecurityTrustHtml, direct innerHTML writes, and helper pipes that quietly turn untrusted input into executable code. ...