XSS Prevention in jQuery Apps: A Real-World Fix
I’ve worked on enough legacy jQuery codebases to know how XSS sneaks in: not through one giant mistake, but through dozens of “harmless” shortcuts. A team I helped had a customer support dashboard built over several years. Classic jQuery app. Server-rendered shell, lots of AJAX fragments, user comments, admin notes, profile fields, search terms reflected back into the UI. Everything felt normal until a security review found stored and reflected XSS in multiple places. ...