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innerHTML Has Five Doors. Most Reviews Only Watch One.

I have reviewed the same line of code, written five different ways, and caught it once. The line is element.innerHTML = something . I catch it when something is obviously a URL parameter.

  • innerHTML can insert content into DOM
  • Risks XSS vulnerabilities with untrusted data
  • Developers often neglect validation and sanitization

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Morning recap

Morning recap Good morning Middle East Eye readers, Secretary-general of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Hissen Brahim Taha, has welcomed the joint defence agreement signed by…

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Goodbye Gus: the end of the Petro presidency

We look back on four years of Gustavo Petro’s presidency as the first ever leftist head of state prepares to leave office. It’s been emotional. Colombian president Gustavo Petro was elected in 2022 as an unprecedentedly leftist leader. Since then, it’s been a roller-coaster ride that’s accelerated erratically in the final year or so.

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In defence of compromise

People can stomach a great deal of horse-trading when they know what was traded, why, and what they gain. What they punish, rightly, is the sense that a deal was struck in the dark.

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