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Web Application Security Checklist by probely

The checklist

General security

  •  I use prepared statements in SQL queries
  •  I do not concatenate any other input data to SQL queries other than the bound parameters
  •  I validate all input data server-side
  •  I encode all input data before sending the response to the browser
  •  I have disabled directory listing in the web server
  •  I include a CSRF token in requests that change state (or I use the SameSite cookie attribute for the session cookie)
  •  I do not show errors with stack traces, source code, full paths or any other internal data.
  •  I verify the content type of uploaded files and delete the bad ones
  •  If I handle XML files, I disabled external entity and DTD processing
  •  I use HTTPS and I send the Strict-Transport-Security header
  •  I only accept TLS 1.2 or higher
  •  I set the Secure, HttpOnly and SameSite=lax attributes in session cookies
  •  I set the Secure attribute in all other cookies, and if possible HttpOnly also
  •  All 3rd-party JavaScript libraries that my app uses, are updated to the latest version

    I have a login feature and cannot use an already existent service:
  •  I store passwords using a strong cryptographic function (scrypt, argon2, bcrypt, or PBKDF2)
  •  I ask for the current password to set a new password, email or any other information used in the password reset process
  •  I only accept passwords longer than 12 chars and reject common passwords (top 1000)
  •  I support multi-factor authentication
  •  I limit the number of attempts to endpoints such as login, password reset and 2FA validation
  •  I use the language libraries to create and validate JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
  •  I destroy the session server-side and invalidate the matching JSON Web Token (JWT) when the user logs out
  •  I destroy the password reset token after it is used and after a pre-defined time
  • version 1.1

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https://github.com/Probely/security_checklist

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