WAF Mistakes That Break XSS Prevention
A WAF can help with XSS prevention. It can also give your team a completely false sense of safety. I’ve seen this pattern too many times: a team buys a WAF, enables the default rules, blocks a few obvious <script> payloads, and then quietly assumes XSS is “handled.” That’s not how this works. A WAF is a useful layer, not a substitute for fixing how the app renders untrusted data. ...