Potential fix for code scanning alert no. 716: Reflected cross-site scripting #50
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Potential fix for https://github.com/Defacto2/server/security/code-scanning/716
To fix the issue, the user-provided input should be properly sanitized or escaped before being included in the HTML response. The Go
html/templatepackage provides thehtml.EscapeStringfunction, which is designed to escape special HTML characters like<,>,&, and". This ensures that any potentially malicious input is rendered as plain text instead of being interpreted as executable HTML or JavaScript.searchvariable usinghtml.EscapeStringbefore concatenating it into the HTML response.searchvariable in line 49 withhtml.EscapeString(search). This ensures that any special characters in the input are safely escaped.handler/htmx/htmx.go.Suggested fixes powered by Copilot Autofix. Review carefully before merging.