# HTML5 Security Cheat Sheet — Client-side databases

> Web SQL Database was deprecated by the W3C in 2010 and is removed from all major browsers: Chromium dropped support in version 119 (October 2023) and Safari/Firefox never shipped it for third-party origins.

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Web SQL Database was deprecated by the W3C in 2010 and is removed from all major browsers: Chromium dropped support in version 119 (October 2023) and Safari/Firefox never shipped it for third-party origins. Do not use Web SQL. If you specifically need an SQL interface in the browser, prefer running an embedded engine such as the official SQLite WebAssembly build (sqlite-wasm), backed by IndexedDB or the Origin Private File System (OPFS) for persistence. The current standard for client-side structured storage is IndexedDB, a transactional key-value store that has been a W3C Recommendation since 2015 and is supported in all evergreen browsers. Underlying storage mechanisms vary across user agents and operating systems. A user (or any process running with that user's privileges, including malware) with read access to the browser profile directory on disk can read or modify the stored data, so do not assume client-side storage provides confidentiality. Do not store session tokens, credentials, or other secrets in IndexedDB unless they are encrypted with a key that is not itself recoverable from the browser (for example, derived from a user-supplied passphrase that is never persisted, or wrapped by a non-extractable Web Crypto CryptoKey). A single Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability can read or write any data in IndexedDB; treat its contents as untrusted input on read. Apply the same input validation and output encoding rules to data coming from IndexedDB as you would to data coming from the network.

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