Exam Professional-Cloud-Security-Engineer Topic 2 Question 116 Discussion

Actual exam question for Google's Professional-Cloud-Security-Engineer exam
Question #: 116
Topic #: 2
You are on your company's development team. You noticed that your web application hosted in staging on GKE dynamically includes user data in web pages without first properly validating the inputted data. This could allow an attacker to execute gibberish commands and display arbitrary content in a victim user's browser in a production environment.
How should you prevent and fix this vulnerability?

Suggested Answer: D Vote an answer

Explanation
There is mention about simulating in Web Security Scanner. "Web Security Scanner cross-site scripting (XSS) injection testing *simulates* an injection attack by inserting a benign test string into user-editable fields and then performing various user actions."
https://cloud.google.com/security-command-center/docs/how-to-remediate-web-security-scanner-findings#xss

by Zebulon at Feb 13, 2026, 07:24 AM

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