Package Health Score

74 / 100

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No known security issues
popularity
Influential project
maintenance
Inactive
community
Active

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No known security issues

All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

Security and license risk for significant versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
2.0.0	\|	08/2020		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
1.3.0	\|	09/2019	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
0.2.0	\|	10/2015		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
0.1.2	\|	03/2015		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

License

MIT

Security Policy

Yes

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Popularity

Influential project

Weekly Downloads (385,506)

GitHub Stars: 10.03K
Forks: 367
Contributors: 50

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package x-xss-protection receives a total of 385,506 downloads a week. As such, we scored x-xss-protection popularity level to be Influential project.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package x-xss-protection, we found that it has been starred 10,033 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

Active

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 50
Funding: No

With more than 10 contributors for the x-xss-protection repository, this is possibly a sign for a growing and inviting community.

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Maintenance

Inactive

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 6
Open PR: 2
Last Release: 4 years ago
Last Commit: 12 days ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of x-xss-protection based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Inactive.

An important project maintenance signal to consider for x-xss-protection is that it hasn't seen any new versions released to npm in the past 12 months, and could be considered as a discontinued project, or that which receives low attention from its maintainers.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: >=10.0.0

Age: 10 years
Dependencies: 0 Direct
Versions: 10
Install Size: 4.59 kB
Dist-tags: 1
# of Files: 6
Maintainers: 1
TS Typings: Yes

x-xss-protection has more than a single and default latest tag published for the npm package. This means, there may be other tags available for this package, such as next to indicate future releases, or stable to indicate stable releases.

Readme

X-XSS-Protection middleware

The X-XSS-Protection HTTP header aimed to offer a basic protection against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. However, you probably should disable it, which is what this middleware does.

Many browsers have chosen to remove it because of the unintended security issues it creates. Generally, you should protect against XSS with sanitization and a Content Security Policy. For more, read this GitHub issue.

This middleware sets the X-XSS-Protection header to 0. For example:

const xXssProtection = require("x-xss-protection");

// Set "X-XSS-Protection: 0"
app.use(xXssProtection());

If you truly need the legacy behavior, you can write your own simple middleware and avoid installing this module. For example:

// NOTE: This is probably insecure!
app.use((req, res, next) => {
  res.setHeader("X-XSS-Protection", "1; mode=block");
  next();
});

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What is x-xss-protection?

Middleware to disable the X-XSS-Protection header. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for x-xss-protection, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is x-xss-protection popular?

The npm package x-xss-protection receives a total of 385,506 weekly downloads. As such, x-xss-protection popularity was classified as an influential project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is x-xss-protection well maintained?

We found indications that x-xss-protection is an Inactive project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is x-xss-protection safe to use?

The npm package x-xss-protection was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 10 May-2024, at 01:34 (UTC).

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Middleware to disable the X-XSS-Protection header For more information about how to use this package see README

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