Fix code scanning alert no. 7: Cross-site scripting #2613
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Fixes https://github.com/OpenFeign/feign/security/code-scanning/7
To fix the problem, we need to ensure that the user-provided content type is properly sanitized or encoded before being included in the response. The best way to fix this issue is to use a library that provides HTML encoding to prevent XSS attacks. In Java, the
StringEscapeUtils
class from the Apache Commons Text library can be used for this purpose.uploadUnknownType
method to encode the content type usingStringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml4
.feign-form/src/test/java/feign/form/Server.java
.org.apache.commons.text.StringEscapeUtils
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