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XSS

Cross-Site Scripting

A security vulnerability where malicious scripts are injected into web pages. Salesforce provides built-in XSS protection in Lightning components and enforces encoding in Visualforce.

Example use case

A security review flags a Visualforce page using unescaped merge fields, and the developer fixes it by adding HTMLENCODE to prevent XSS attacks.

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