angularjs + cross-site scripting preventing

Question

Is Angularjs takes care of XSS attack. I have read that ng-bind takes care. But When i try to do a sample to test that, it allows me to insert html tags in input type with n

Answer 1

I don't believe that AngularJS has default whitelist input validation, which is what your test exercises. So a user can pretty much input anything they like. This is not surprising - whitelists are very domain specific, and Angular is a framework designed for a wide range of domains.

The main defense against XSS is to properly encode all untrusted data (see https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-A3-Cross-Site_Scripting_(XSS)). This, Angular does by default.

Bottom line is that AngularJS is intended to be secure from XSS by default, no special action required. You can verify some basic scenarios by trying to output what you input into a view using the normal {{scopevariable}} notation.

I did find a detailed analysis of AngularJS XSS vulnerability: https://code.google.com/p/mustache-security/wiki/AngularJS. At the end of the comments, there is a link to a google doc with further discussion and response from the angular team.