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Designing a secure small-team CMS
How to balance editor convenience with roles, validation, safe uploads and recoverable operations.
A CMS is a privileged application. It deserves stronger boundaries than the public marketing pages it controls.
Separate permissions
Editors can draft and update content while publishing, deletion and lead access remain with trusted roles. Sessions should expire and cookies should not be readable by browser scripts.
Treat uploads as hostile input
Check size, extension and file signatures; generate unpredictable filenames; store outside executable paths; and serve with strict content policies.
Make mistakes recoverable
Keep database and upload backups together, log important changes and avoid destructive bulk actions without confirmation.
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