Input Sanitization & Security Packages
Input sanitization, XSS prevention, and application-security utilities that clean untrusted input before it reaches your rendering or storage layer (DOMPurify).
Packages in Input Sanitization & Security
DOMPurify
DOM-only, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML, and SVG that runs in the browser and on the server.
cors
Node.js CORS middleware for Express and Connect that sets standards-compliant headers to control cross-origin browser access.
sanitize-html
Allowlist-based HTML sanitizer that strips XSS vectors from untrusted markup while preserving the tags and attributes you choose to keep.
rehype-sanitize
A unified rehype plugin that sanitizes HTML to prevent XSS by dropping anything a schema does not explicitly allow.
helmet
Secure Node and Express apps by setting protective HTTP response headers with a single line of middleware.
express-rate-limit
Basic IP rate-limiting middleware for Express to throttle repeated requests and protect public APIs and sensitive endpoints.
validator.js
A dependency-free library of 100+ string validators and sanitizers for Node.js and the browser.
isbot
Detect bots, crawlers, and spiders from the user agent string with a single call.
rate-limiter-flexible
Atomic and non-atomic counters and rate-limiting tools that protect against DoS and brute-force attacks at any scale
defusedxml
Drop-in replacements for Python's XML modules that block XML-bomb and entity-expansion attacks
isolated-vm
Secure, isolated V8 JavaScript environments for Node.js
@fastify/cors
Official Fastify plugin that adds configurable CORS headers and preflight handling to any Fastify API.
django-cors-headers
Configurable CORS headers middleware for Django applications
Bleach
Allowlist-based HTML sanitizing library for untrusted text
enshrined/svg-sanitize
A PHP SVG/XML sanitizer that strips malicious markup from untrusted SVGs
