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Sanitizing JavaScript to prevent XSS

I'm going through a vulnerability remediation exercise for a client and am trying to figure out how to best mitigate this particular hole. There's a script on our site that calls up content into a new ...
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Simple solution to XSS

I've got an idea as to how to defeat XSS so simple that it may work and was wondering if anybody had already done something similar. The goal here is not efficiency but security. In other words I ...
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DOM Based XSS attacks: what is the most dangerous example?

I knew that XSS attacks (“non-persistent” and “persistent”) can hijack user session, deface websites, conduct phishing attack, etc. However, I can't understand what is dangerous of DOM Based XSS if ...
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header injection + codeigniter

I'm reading through Mozilla's Secure Coding Guidelines, and found this statement: Don't trust any user data (input, headers, cookies etc). Validate it before using it I'm using the codeigniter ...
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Server wide javascript injection

UPDATE: The server was rooted, php.ini was replaced that cause the injection to appear. Still haven't figured out which directive is injecting the javascript. I'm troubleshooting a hacked website ...
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Testing PHP form injection

I'm writing a very small PHP app that takes input via a form. As could be expected for a first revision, the code does no escaping or sanitisation of input: if( $_POST["var"] != "" ) { print ...