diff --git a/charts/budibase/templates/app-service-deployment.yaml b/charts/budibase/templates/app-service-deployment.yaml
index 2b099d01f5..4d0560312f 100644
--- a/charts/budibase/templates/app-service-deployment.yaml
+++ b/charts/budibase/templates/app-service-deployment.yaml
@@ -184,6 +184,10 @@ spec:
         - name: NODE_DEBUG
           value: {{ .Values.services.apps.nodeDebug | quote }}
         {{ end }}
+        {{ if .Values.services.apps.xssSafeMode }}
+        - name: XSS_SAFE_MODE
+          value: {{ .Values.services.apps.xssSafeMode | quote }}
+        {{ end }}
         {{ if .Values.globals.datadogApmEnabled }}
         - name: DD_LOGS_INJECTION
           value: {{ .Values.globals.datadogApmEnabled | quote }}
diff --git a/packages/server/src/environment.ts b/packages/server/src/environment.ts
index 585eb6a7f2..45d675ec3f 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/environment.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/environment.ts
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ const environment = {
   PLUGINS_DIR: process.env.PLUGINS_DIR || DEFAULTS.PLUGINS_DIR,
   MAX_IMPORT_SIZE_MB: process.env.MAX_IMPORT_SIZE_MB,
   SESSION_EXPIRY_SECONDS: process.env.SESSION_EXPIRY_SECONDS,
+  XSS_SAFE_MODE: process.env.XSS_SAFE_MODE,
   // SQL
   SQL_MAX_ROWS: process.env.SQL_MAX_ROWS,
   SQL_LOGGING_ENABLE: process.env.SQL_LOGGING_ENABLE,
diff --git a/packages/server/src/sdk/app/rows/tests/utils.spec.ts b/packages/server/src/sdk/app/rows/tests/utils.spec.ts
index 548b2b6bc9..a7bfee3ea9 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/sdk/app/rows/tests/utils.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/sdk/app/rows/tests/utils.spec.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import {
 import { generateTableID } from "../../../../db/utils"
 import { validate } from "../utils"
 import { generator } from "@budibase/backend-core/tests"
+import { withEnv } from "../../../../environment"
 
 describe("validate", () => {
   const hour = () => generator.hour().toString().padStart(2, "0")
@@ -332,4 +333,46 @@ describe("validate", () => {
       })
     })
   })
+
+  describe("XSS Safe mode", () => {
+    const getTable = (): Table => ({
+      type: "table",
+      _id: generateTableID(),
+      name: "table",
+      sourceId: INTERNAL_TABLE_SOURCE_ID,
+      sourceType: TableSourceType.INTERNAL,
+      schema: {
+        text: {
+          name: "sometext",
+          type: FieldType.STRING,
+        },
+      },
+    })
+    it.each([
+      "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = 'admin' --",
+      "SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = 1; DROP TABLE users;",
+      "1' OR '1' = '1",
+      "' OR 'a' = 'a",
+      "<script>alert('XSS');</script>",
+      '"><img src=x onerror=alert(1)>',
+      "</script><script>alert('test')</script>",
+      "<div onmouseover=\"alert('XSS')\">Hover over me!</div>",
+      "'; EXEC sp_msforeachtable 'DROP TABLE ?'; --",
+      "{alert('Injected')}",
+      "UNION SELECT * FROM users",
+      "INSERT INTO users (username, password) VALUES ('admin', 'password')",
+      "/* This is a comment */ SELECT * FROM users",
+      '<iframe src="http://malicious-site.com"></iframe>',
+    ])("test potentially unsafe input: %s", async input => {
+      withEnv({ XSS_SAFE_MODE: "1" }, async () => {
+        const table = getTable()
+        const row = { text: input }
+        const output = await validate({ source: table, row })
+        expect(output.valid).toBe(false)
+        expect(output.errors).toStrictEqual({
+          text: ["Input not sanitised - potentially vulnerable to XSS"],
+        })
+      })
+    })
+  })
 })
diff --git a/packages/server/src/sdk/app/rows/utils.ts b/packages/server/src/sdk/app/rows/utils.ts
index 6ef4dcbc8e..bded6a7a18 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/sdk/app/rows/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/sdk/app/rows/utils.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import { extractViewInfoFromID, isRelationshipColumn } from "../../../db/utils"
 import { isSQL } from "../../../integrations/utils"
 import { docIds, sql } from "@budibase/backend-core"
 import { getTableFromSource } from "../../../api/controllers/row/utils"
+import env from "../../../environment"
 
 const SQL_CLIENT_SOURCE_MAP: Record<SourceName, SqlClient | undefined> = {
   [SourceName.POSTGRES]: SqlClient.POSTGRES,
@@ -43,6 +44,9 @@ const SQL_CLIENT_SOURCE_MAP: Record<SourceName, SqlClient | undefined> = {
   [SourceName.BUDIBASE]: undefined,
 }
 
+const XSS_INPUT_REGEX =
+  /[<>;"'(){}]|--|\/\*|\*\/|union|select|insert|drop|delete|update|exec|script/i
+
 export function getSQLClient(datasource: Datasource): SqlClient {
   if (!isSQL(datasource)) {
     throw new Error("Cannot get SQL Client for non-SQL datasource")
@@ -222,6 +226,15 @@ export async function validate({
     } else {
       res = validateJs.single(row[fieldName], constraints)
     }
+
+    if (env.XSS_SAFE_MODE && typeof row[fieldName] === "string") {
+      if (XSS_INPUT_REGEX.test(row[fieldName])) {
+        errors[fieldName] = [
+          "Input not sanitised - potentially vulnerable to XSS",
+        ]
+      }
+    }
+
     if (res) errors[fieldName] = res
   }
   return { valid: Object.keys(errors).length === 0, errors }