From f490a5736523dafb2eb37b996ae62320c2f7fa1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gaiabio12-design Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:25:00 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] chore: start work on #164 --- IMPLEMENTATION_NOTES.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 IMPLEMENTATION_NOTES.md diff --git a/IMPLEMENTATION_NOTES.md b/IMPLEMENTATION_NOTES.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a1c3392 --- /dev/null +++ b/IMPLEMENTATION_NOTES.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +# Implementation Notes — Issue #164 + +**Issue:** [Security] Comprehensive Data Sanitization and Input Validation Audit +**Upstream:** https://github.com/BETAIL-BOYS/TradeFlow-API/issues/164 + +## Acceptance Criteria + +**Description:** Several administrative and public search endpoints parse user input strings directly into database query contexts, posing potential injection risks and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vectors if returned directly to frontend clients. +**Context / Motivation:** Tightly validation-checking all inputs at the API boundaries guarantees that malformed inputs are blocked long before they hit internal application execution engines. +**Acceptance Criteria:** +- [ ] Integrate a schema validation layer (like Zod or Joi) across all incoming payload points (`req.body`, `req.query`, `req.params`). +- [ ] Ensure any text search parameters escape special SQL/NoSQL parameters explicitly. +- [ ] Clean and sanitize any user-provided metadata using an XSS filter before saving it to the database. +**Technical Pointers:** Rely entirely on parameterized queries or ORM safe-execution paradigms instead of constructing query components via raw string concatenation. + +--- +_Delete this file before merging._ \ No newline at end of file