Title: Securing (sanitizing) Input
Author: Samuel Sidler
Published: October 19, 2014
Last modified: December 5, 2022

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# Securing (sanitizing) Input

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This content has been moved to the [Sanitizing Data](https://developer.wordpress.org/apis/security/sanitizing/)
page in the Common APIs Handbook.

First published

October 19, 2014

Last updated

December 5, 2022

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