PROTECT Your Laravel App from Hackers with These Top Security Tips!

Welcome to this comprehensive Laravel security tutorial! This video is designed to help developers identify and fix common security vulnerabilities in Laravel applications. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced developer, understanding these security risks is essential for building safe and reliable web applications.

Here’s what we’ll cover in this video:

1️⃣ Sensitive Data Protection: Learn why .env files are crucial and how to avoid exposing sensitive information elsewhere.
2️⃣ Input Validation: Never trust user input! We’ll show you how to validate data effectively to prevent SQL injection and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).
3️⃣ File Upload Security: Discover the dangers of improperly handled file uploads and how to validate file types and paths to block malicious scripts.
4️⃣ Preventing XSS Attacks: See how running JavaScript from user inputs can lead to serious vulnerabilities and how to safeguard your app.
5️⃣ Avoiding SQL Injection: Understand the risks of raw SQL queries and how Laravel's query builder protects against them.
6️⃣ API Rate Limiting: Learn how to prevent brute force and dictionary attacks with Laravel’s rate-limiting features.
7️⃣ Password Hashing: See why plain text passwords are a bad idea and how to use Laravel's hashing methods to store them securely.
8️⃣ Error Handling: Learn why detailed error messages can be dangerous and how to use custom error handling.
9️⃣ Debug Mode in Production: Discover why exposing debug mode can reveal sensitive application details to attackers.
🔟 Image and File Upload Validation: See how attackers can exploit image uploads and how to restrict and validate uploaded content effectively.
1️⃣1️⃣ Restricting File Upload Paths: Protect your server by limiting where files can be saved to prevent unauthorized access.
1️⃣2️⃣ Login Attempt Limitations: Learn to stop brute force login attempts by limiting login retries.

🔒 Why You Should Watch:
We’ll show both insecure and secure code examples, plus a demo of how attackers can exploit vulnerabilities. By the end of this video, you’ll be equipped with actionable tips and best practices to make your Laravel applications significantly more secure.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:34 Adding Sensitive Data to .env
2:26 Hashing and encryption
7:18 app_debug
8:24 Error Handling
11:25 Backend Validation
13:12 SQL injection
16:11 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
18:48 Dictionary Attack
24:26 Unrestricted File Upload vulnerability

[eraufi]

Guys if you have any security tips or suggestions please write them down in the comments.

[julienSibille]

Hi, thanks !
Sometimes you may need to render code (in case of no code builder for exemple). How to prevent malicious insertion ? With regex ?

[muhammadmasum]

you forgot to put file input into storage, and then make route for specific storage and give them permission such a user login or sessions.
saving input files in public is a big mistake.

greetings from indonesia sir :D