Security risks of using eval() to execute user input in JavaScript

Question

I\'m planning on throwing together a quick web page for my students to teach them about JavaScript programming. On this page, I\'d like to give them a text box and allow the

Answer 1

I would recommend you to sandbox all the user input evaling, to prevent the evaluated code to access all of the global (window) object properties and methods.

Give a look to the following resources:

• Sandboxing JavaScript Using