XSS in SAPUI5: Common Mistakes and Fixes
SAPUI5 does a lot of the heavy lifting for output encoding, but I’ve seen teams get a false sense of safety from that. The framework helps, yes. It does not save you when you bypass its protections, render raw HTML, or trust backend data too much. If you build SAPUI5 apps, most XSS bugs come from a handful of repeat mistakes. They’re boring, predictable, and still very exploitable. Mistake #1: Assuming model data is always safe A common SAPUI5 habit is to bind model values directly into controls and assume the framework will handle everything. Often it does. But “often” is not a security strategy. ...