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Character

Name

' and "

Single and double quote

/ and \

Forward-slash and back-slash

\ \

Double slashes*

space

Space character at beginning or end of string

#

Hash character at the beginning of the string

< and >

Angle brackets

, and ;

Comma and semi-colon

+ and *

Addition and multiplication operators

( and )

Round braces

\u0000

Unicode NULL character

* This is a character sequence

Noncompliant Code Example

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This compliant solution uses a white-list to validate user input so that only valid characters appear in the filter string. For example, userSN may contain only letters and spaces whereas a password may also contain alphanumeric characters.

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