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Prevent never-ending sub documents in NodeJS and MongoDB

In nodeJS, we can get POST data by this:

<input type="text" name="doc[a]"/>

var doc = req.body.doc;

When I get 'doc', I insert into MongoDB using native-mongodb collection.insert(doc, ..)

I wonder if when doing POST request, I inject this kind of data

doc[a][b][c][d][e][f][g][h][i][j][.]... = xxxx
doc[b] = yyy
doc[e] = zzz

I only need doc[a] buy would end up having doc.a.b.c.d.f.g... like this in Node and MongoDB right? What is a good solution to prevent that to happen?

Solution

  • Information about MongoDB Injection can be found at the official docs. and Here are some security guidelines from PHP. The solution is pretty simple - type cast it to string.