flask-sanitize-escape 0.0.1

Sanitization functions for Flask backend input to prevent XSS, RCE, SQLi and many others

Flask-Sanitize-Escape 🛡️

A Flask middleware extension for automatic input sanitization, guarding against common web vulnerabilities like XSS, SQL injection, and other code injection attacks.

Key Features

• Effortless Integration: Activate the middleware with a single line of code.
• Automatic Protection: Sanitizes incoming request data without requiring manual intervention in your route handlers.
• Comprehensive Coverage: Scrubs query parameters, form data, and JSON payloads.
• Targeted Defense: Neutralizes malicious code through HTML entity encoding and regex-based filtering.
• Customizable: Easily adapt the sanitization logic to your specific application's needs.

Installation

pip install flask-sanitize-escape

Usage

1. Activate Middleware:

from flask import Flask
from flask_sanitize_escape import SanitizeEscapeExtension

app = Flask(__name__)
app.wsgi_app = SanitizeEscapeExtension.Middleware(app.wsgi_app)

2. Relax! Your application's input data is now automatically sanitized before it reaches your route handlers.