Topic

Web application input handling

Applicable to

all

History

Priority

must

Mar 2022

Validation or sanitisation is performed on all input handled by web applications.

Miscellaneous changes were made to rationale and recommendations throughout the publication to clarify content without changing intent. This included a review from the Guidelines for System Hardening chapter through to the Guidelines for Data Transfers chapter.

2017

Validation and/or sanitisation must be performed on all input handled by a web application.

Control Text Changed. No public explaination.

2015

Agencies must perform appropriate validation and/or sanitisation on all input handled by aweb application.