Security: Cross-site Scripting

Overview

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is an attack to a website where data that contains scripts is executed and malicous code created by one user may be run by another user.

Servoy will sanitize all data that is shown in the WebClient and the NGClient to prevent this in Servoy solutions.

Trusting data as html

In some situations data used in elements contains html that has to be shown as-is.

Only in cases where the source of the html can be fully trusted, an element should be configured to disable sanitizing.

This is done via the UI_PROPERTY.TRUST_DATA_AS_HTML client property on an element:

elements.usernameLabel.putClientProperty(APP_UI_PROPERTY.TRUST_DATA_AS_HTML, true);

When this property is set on an element, data from its dataProvider will be trusted and not sanitized.

Alternatively, sanitizing of data can be turned off for the entire running client by applying the same property on the application node:

application.putClientProperty(APP_UI_PROPERTY.TRUST_DATA_AS_HTML, true);

Using this at application level is highly discouraged, your system may be vulnerable to XSS attacks.

For more information see UICONSTANTS.