What improvements can be made to the provided PHP code to ensure accurate display of data in table cells?

The issue with the provided PHP code is that it is not properly escaping the data before displaying it in the table cells. This can lead to potential security vulnerabilities such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. To ensure accurate display of data in table cells, we should use htmlspecialchars() function to escape the data before outputting it in the HTML table. 

<?php
// Sample data
$data = "<script>alert('XSS attack');</script>";

// Output table with properly escaped data
echo "<table>";
echo "<tr><td>" . htmlspecialchars($data) . "</td></tr>";
echo "</table>";
?>

Keywords

HTML PHP table data display accuracy

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