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PL/SQL is a powerful procedural language built on top of Oracle SQL syntax. Extensive library of business-related and data-processing functions it incorporates makes it an attractive environment for building business-critical applications operating fully within the Oracle database. Introduction of PL/SQL Web Toolkit enabled Oracle developers to generate HTML straight from the PL/SQL code and build web applications fully residing from within the Oracle database.
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Just as any other web stack, PL/SQL web applications require careful input validation and other standard safeguards to prevent exploitable [[OWASP Top 10]] vulnerabilities.  Oracle <code>htp</code> (hypertext procedures) and <code>htf</code> (hypertext functions) packages contain the primary functions for generating output in PL/SQL web applications as well as output escaping functions. See [https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B14099_19/web.1012/b15896/pshtp.htm Oracle: The htp and htf Packages]
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==Escaping==
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Applications running on newer Oracle versions where APEX packages are available should use <code>apex_escape</code> for contextual escaping of output data in a manner similar to [[ESAPI]] validators. See [https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/AEAPI/apex_escape.htm Oracle: apex_escape]
 
 
 
* APEX_ESCAPE.HTML
 
* APEX_ESCAPE.HTML_ATTRIBUTE
 
* APEX_ESCAPE.HTML_TRUNC
 
* APEX_ESCAPE.HTML_WHITELIST
 
* APEX_ESCAPE.JS_LITERAL
 
* APEX_ESCAPE.LDAP_DN
 
* APEX_ESCAPE.LDAP_SEARCH_FILTER
 
* APEX_ESCAPE.NOOP
 
 
 
Applications should use <code>htp.prints</code> to output text blocks rather than <code>htp.print</code> as the former escapes potentially dangerous characters (<code><>"'</code>). Note that the <code>htp.prints</code> cannot be used as a simple drop-in replacement for <code>htp.print</code> because it will also escape legitimate HTML but by <code>htp</code> usage model raw HTML shouldn't be generally entered in strings but rather generated with appropriate HTML functions (e.g. <code>htp.header(1, 'Hello');</code> will output <code>&lt;H1&gt;Hello&lt;/H1&gt;</code>).
 
 
 
Sample usage in typical PL/SQL code:
 
 
 
    htp.header(1, 'Details for user ' || apex_escape.html(username)); -- outputs &lt;H1&gt;...&lt;/H1&gt;<
 
    htp.print('Username: '); -- just a string literal, no need to escape
 
    htp.italic(apex_escape.html(username), 'class=' || apex_escape.html_attribute(userclass) );
 
    htp.para();
 
    htp.prints(address); -- escapes dangerous chars in address string
 
    htp.script ('var username="' || apex_escape.js_literal(username) || '";');
 
 
 
On older Oracle platforms <code>htf.escape_sc</code> for output in HTML context can be used and the <code>utl_url.escape</code> function is available to escape URL characters (<code>&"<>%</code>). URL escaping functionality is also provided by legacy <code>htf.escape_url</code> function. These functions are generally less robust than their <code>apex_escape</code> equivalents and not context-aware.
 
 
 
==Authors==
 
* Pawel Krawczyk
 
 
 
== Other Cheatsheets ==
 
 
 
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Latest revision as of 10:15, 16 February 2019

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The Cheat Sheet Series project has been moved to GitHub!

An open discussion is pending about to exclude or not this cheat sheet of the V2 of the project.