diff --git a/src/logic/hooks/useSafeAppUrl.tsx b/src/logic/hooks/useSafeAppUrl.tsx
index a0c672cb65..1fdcd3ca01 100644
--- a/src/logic/hooks/useSafeAppUrl.tsx
+++ b/src/logic/hooks/useSafeAppUrl.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { useLocation } from 'react-router-dom'
 import { useCallback } from 'react'
+import { sanitizeUrl } from 'src/utils/sanitizeUrl'
 
 type AppUrlReturnType = {
   getAppUrl: () => string | null
@@ -10,7 +11,13 @@ export const useSafeAppUrl = (): AppUrlReturnType => {
 
   const getAppUrl = useCallback(() => {
     const query = new URLSearchParams(search)
-    return query.get('appUrl')
+    try {
+      const url = query.get('appUrl')
+
+      return sanitizeUrl(url)
+    } catch {
+      throw new Error('Detected javascript injection in the URL. Check the appUrl parameter')
+    }
   }, [search])
 
   return {
diff --git a/src/utils/__tests__/sanitizeUrl.test.ts b/src/utils/__tests__/sanitizeUrl.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ab0fb056f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils/__tests__/sanitizeUrl.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+import { sanitizeUrl } from '../sanitizeUrl'
+
+describe('sanitizeUrl', () => {
+  it('does not alter http URLs with alphanumeric characters', () => {
+    expect(sanitizeUrl('http://example.com/path/to:something')).toBe('http://example.com/path/to:something')
+  })
+
+  it('does not alter http URLs with ports with alphanumeric characters', () => {
+    expect(sanitizeUrl('http://example.com:4567/path/to:something')).toBe('http://example.com:4567/path/to:something')
+  })
+
+  it('does not alter https URLs with alphanumeric characters', () => {
+    expect(sanitizeUrl('https://example.com')).toBe('https://example.com')
+  })
+
+  it('does not alter https URLs with ports with alphanumeric characters', () => {
+    expect(sanitizeUrl('https://example.com:4567/path/to:something')).toBe('https://example.com:4567/path/to:something')
+  })
+
+  it('does not alter relative-path reference URLs with alphanumeric characters', () => {
+    expect(sanitizeUrl('./path/to/my.json')).toBe('./path/to/my.json')
+  })
+
+  it('does not alter absolute-path reference URLs with alphanumeric characters', () => {
+    expect(sanitizeUrl('/path/to/my.json')).toBe('/path/to/my.json')
+  })
+
+  it('does not alter protocol-less network-path URLs with alphanumeric characters', () => {
+    expect(sanitizeUrl('//google.com/robots.txt')).toBe('//google.com/robots.txt')
+  })
+
+  it('does not alter protocol-less URLs with alphanumeric characters', () => {
+    expect(sanitizeUrl('www.example.com')).toBe('www.example.com')
+  })
+
+  it('does not alter deep-link urls with alphanumeric characters', () => {
+    expect(sanitizeUrl('com.braintreepayments.demo://example')).toBe('com.braintreepayments.demo://example')
+  })
+
+  it('does not alter mailto urls with alphanumeric characters', () => {
+    expect(sanitizeUrl('mailto:test@example.com?subject=hello+world')).toBe(
+      'mailto:test@example.com?subject=hello+world',
+    )
+  })
+
+  it('does not alter urls with accented characters', () => {
+    expect(sanitizeUrl('www.example.com/with-áccêntš')).toBe('www.example.com/with-áccêntš')
+  })
+
+  it('does not strip harmless unicode characters', () => {
+    expect(sanitizeUrl('www.example.com/лот.рфшишкиü–')).toBe('www.example.com/лот.рфшишкиü–')
+  })
+
+  it('strips out ctrl chars', () => {
+    expect(sanitizeUrl('www.example.com/\u200D\u0000\u001F\x00\x1F\uFEFFfoo')).toBe('www.example.com/foo')
+  })
+
+  it('replaces blank urls with an empty space', () => {
+    expect(sanitizeUrl('')).toBe('')
+  })
+
+  it('replaces null values with an empty space', () => {
+    // @ts-ignore
+    expect(sanitizeUrl(null)).toBe('')
+  })
+
+  it('removes whitespace from urls', () => {
+    expect(sanitizeUrl('   http://example.com/path/to:something    ')).toBe('http://example.com/path/to:something')
+  })
+
+  describe('invalid protocols', () => {
+    describe.each(['javascript', 'data', 'vbscript'])('%s', (protocol) => {
+      it(`replaces ${protocol} urls with an empty space`, () => {
+        expect(() => sanitizeUrl(`${protocol}:alert(document.domain)`)).toThrow(/invalid protocol/i)
+      })
+
+      it(`allows ${protocol} urls that start with a letter prefix`, () => {
+        expect(sanitizeUrl(`not_${protocol}:alert(document.domain)`)).toBe(`not_${protocol}:alert(document.domain)`)
+      })
+
+      it(`disallows ${protocol} urls that start with non-\w characters as a suffix for the protocol`, () => {
+        expect(() => sanitizeUrl(`&!*${protocol}:alert(document.domain)`)).toThrow(/invalid protocol/i)
+      })
+
+      it(`disregards capitalization for ${protocol} urls`, () => {
+        // upper case every other letter in protocol name
+        const mixedCapitalizationProtocol = protocol
+          .split('')
+          .map((character, index) => {
+            if (index % 2 === 0) {
+              return character.toUpperCase()
+            }
+            return character
+          })
+          .join('')
+
+        expect(() => sanitizeUrl(`${mixedCapitalizationProtocol}:alert(document.domain)`)).toThrow(/invalid protocol/i)
+      })
+
+      it(`ignores invisible ctrl characters in ${protocol} urls`, () => {
+        const protocolWithControlCharacters = protocol
+          .split('')
+          .map((character, index) => {
+            if (index === 1) {
+              return character + '%EF%BB%BF%EF%BB%BF'
+            } else if (index === 2) {
+              return character + '%e2%80%8b'
+            }
+            return character
+          })
+          .join('')
+
+        expect(() =>
+          sanitizeUrl(decodeURIComponent(`${protocolWithControlCharacters}:alert(document.domain)`)),
+        ).toThrow(/invalid protocol/i)
+      })
+
+      it(`replaces ${protocol} urls with empty space when url begins with %20`, () => {
+        expect(() => sanitizeUrl(decodeURIComponent(`%20%20%20%20${protocol}:alert(document.domain)`))).toThrow(
+          /invalid protocol/i,
+        )
+      })
+
+      it(`replaces ${protocol} urls with empty space when ${protocol} url begins with an empty space`, () => {
+        expect(() => sanitizeUrl(`    ${protocol}:alert(document.domain)`)).toThrow(/invalid protocol/i)
+      })
+
+      it(`does not replace ${protocol}: if it is not in the scheme of the URL`, () => {
+        expect(sanitizeUrl(`http://example.com#${protocol}:foo`)).toBe(`http://example.com#${protocol}:foo`)
+      })
+    })
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/utils/sanitizeUrl.ts b/src/utils/sanitizeUrl.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3aedea689b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils/sanitizeUrl.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+const invalidProtocolRegex = /^([^\w]*)(javascript|data|vbscript)/im
+const ctrlCharactersRegex = /[\u0000-\u001F\u007F-\u009F\u2000-\u200D\uFEFF]/gim
+const urlSchemeRegex = /^([^:]+):/gm
+const relativeFirstCharacters = ['.', '/']
+
+function isRelativeUrlWithoutProtocol(url: string): boolean {
+  return relativeFirstCharacters.indexOf(url[0]) > -1
+}
+
+export function sanitizeUrl(url: string | null): string {
+  if (!url) {
+    return ''
+  }
+
+  const sanitizedUrl = url.replace(ctrlCharactersRegex, '').trim()
+
+  if (isRelativeUrlWithoutProtocol(sanitizedUrl)) {
+    return sanitizedUrl
+  }
+
+  const urlSchemeParseResults = sanitizedUrl.match(urlSchemeRegex)
+
+  if (!urlSchemeParseResults) {
+    return sanitizedUrl
+  }
+
+  const urlScheme = urlSchemeParseResults[0]
+
+  if (invalidProtocolRegex.test(urlScheme)) {
+    throw new Error('Invalid protocol')
+  }
+
+  return sanitizedUrl
+}