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express-xss-sanitizer

Express 4.x and 5.x middleware which sanitizes user input data (in req.body, req.query, req.headers and req.params) to prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attack.
Licenses: MIT
Published: 5 years ago Last updated: 11 days ago Latest version: 2.0.2
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Package Health Score

54/100
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  • maintenanceHealthy
  • communityLimited

Maintenance

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Last Release
11 days ago
Last Commit
11 days ago
Maintainers
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Further analysis of the maintenance status of express-xss-sanitizer based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Healthy.

We found that express-xss-sanitizer demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Popularity

RECOGNIZED
Weekly downloads (17.2k)
GitHub Stars
29
Forks
11
Contributors
0

The npm package express-xss-sanitizer receives a total of 17,159 downloads a week. As such, we scored express-xss-sanitizer popularity level to be Recognized.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package express-xss-sanitizer, we found that it has been starred 29 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

LIMITED
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Contributors
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Funding
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LICENSE
MIT

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License

MIT>=0;
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Package versions

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2.0.225 Mar, 2026
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1.1.58 Oct, 2022
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express-xss-sanitizer dependencies

1 IN TOTAL
sanitize-html

express-xss-sanitizer development dependencies

11 IN TOTAL
body-parserchaieslinteslint-config-airbnb-baseeslint-config-prettiereslint-plugin-importeslint-plugin-prettierexpressmochaprettiersupertest