express-sanitize-middleware

Sanitize Express request body, query, param, and headers.

Heads up! This package wraps MapBox's port of Google's Caja sanitizer. Please see the aforementioned repository for details on the actual sanitization functionality.

Installation

# Via NPM
npm install express-sanitize-middleware --save

# Via Yarn
yarn add express-sanitize-middleware

Getting Started

express-sanitize-middleware exposes one function sanitizeRequest.

It can be used anywhere Express middleware can.

Example: sanitize request body

const express = require('express');
const sanitizeRequest = require('../middleware/express-sanitize-middleware');
 
const router = express.Router();
 
router.post('/', [
  sanitizeRequest({
    body: true
  }),
], (req, res, next) => {
  return res.json({message: 'Request body sanitized!'});
});

API Reference

sanitizeRequest(options)

The options argument is required and should contain at least one key dictacting what request property to sanitize.

Option key	Default
body	false
header	false
params	false
query	false

License

MIT License Copyright (c) 2018 Joel Colucci