Prevent SQL injection using parameterized prepared statements, and stop XSS attacks with context-aware HTML escaping and HttpOnly cookies.
SQLi & XSS Attack Mechanics
### Vulnerability Defenses
- **SQL Injection (SQLi)**: Occurs when untrusted user input is concatenated into raw SQL strings. Defended using **Parameterized Prepared Statements**.
- **Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)**: Occurs when malicious scripts execute in victim browsers. Defended using **HTML Entity Encoding** and **HttpOnly Cookies** (blocking `document.cookie` access from JavaScript).
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