Summary: Security Fundamentals
Understand key frontend security issues such as XSS, CSRF, spoofing, and exploits. Learn how to mitigate vulnerabilities by managing package updates, sanitizing inputs, validating backend data, and implementing CSRF tokens to enhance your application's security.
Exploits
Exploits are vulnerabilities in our packages or third-party libraries that can be taken advantage of by attackers or people with malicious intent. Hence the name, exploit, because it can be exploited.
To protect ourselves from exploits, intentional or otherwise, we should:
Make it a habit to check for updates regularly and integrate this practice into our development workflow.
Consider using automated tools that can help us manage our dependencies and alert us when updates are available. ...