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Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane

CWE-75

The product does not adequately filter user-controlled input for special elements with control implications.

We track 18 vulnerabilities of this type. 100% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 8.7.

How this weakness is prevented

  • Requirements: Programming languages and supporting technologies might be chosen which are not subject to these issues.
  • Implementation: Utilize an appropriate mix of allowlist and denylist parsing to filter special element syntax from all input.

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