XSS Prevention in Django vs Flask: Pros, Cons, and Tradeoffs
Cross-site scripting is one of those bugs that keeps showing up because developers assume the framework has their back more than it actually does. Django and Flask both give you decent building blocks. They do not give you immunity. The big difference is philosophy: Django is protective by default, Flask is flexible by default. That shows up clearly in XSS prevention. If you’re choosing between them, or auditing an existing app, the question is not “which one blocks XSS?” Both can. The real question is “how easy is it to stay safe when the codebase gets messy?” ...