Description
This Spring web application is configured to disable the automatic HTML escaping for Spring tags which may lead to Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities.
Remediation
It's recommended to enable HTML escaping for Spring tags. This can be configured from web.xml like in the example below:
<web-app> ... <context-param> <param-name>defaultHtmlEscape</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </context-param> ... </web-app>At page level, it is defined as a tag-declaration.
<spring:htmlEscape defaultHtmlEscape="true" />
References
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