diff --git a/app/Controllers/AutoriController.php b/app/Controllers/AutoriController.php
index 556fa391a..8f277d514 100644
--- a/app/Controllers/AutoriController.php
+++ b/app/Controllers/AutoriController.php
@@ -392,8 +392,19 @@ public function delete(Request $request, Response $response, mysqli $db, int $id
                 session_start();
             }
             $_SESSION['error_message'] = __('Impossibile eliminare l\'autore: sono presenti libri associati.');
+            // Only bounce back to the referring authors page when it is a
+            // same-host /admin/authors URL — a bare substring check would let
+            // https://evil.tld/admin/authors through as an open redirect.
             $referer = $request->getHeaderLine('Referer');
-            $target = str_contains($referer, '/admin/authors') ? $referer : '/admin/authors';
+            $target = url('/admin/authors');
+            if ($referer !== '' && strpbrk($referer, "\r\n") === false && !str_starts_with($referer, '//')) {
+                $parsed = parse_url($referer);
+                $host = $parsed['host'] ?? null;
+                $sameHost = $host === null || $host === ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] ?? '');
+                if ($sameHost && str_contains((string) ($parsed['path'] ?? ''), '/admin/authors')) {
+                    $target = $referer;
+                }
+            }
             return $response->withHeader('Location', $target)->withStatus(302);
         }
 
diff --git a/app/Controllers/FrontendController.php b/app/Controllers/FrontendController.php
index 3bd75791d..3bd876a0f 100644
--- a/app/Controllers/FrontendController.php
+++ b/app/Controllers/FrontendController.php
@@ -377,10 +377,11 @@ public function home(Request $request, Response $response, mysqli $db, ?Containe
                 $orgSchema['sameAs'] = $sameAs;
             }
 
-            // Combine schemas
-            $seoSchema = json_encode([$schemaOrg, $orgSchema], JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES | JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
+            // Combine schemas. JSON_HEX_TAG neutralises any </script> that could
+            // reach the value (defence in depth on top of the strip_tags at save).
+            $seoSchema = json_encode([$schemaOrg, $orgSchema], JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES | JSON_PRETTY_PRINT | JSON_HEX_TAG);
         } else {
-            $seoSchema = json_encode($schemaOrg, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES | JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
+            $seoSchema = json_encode($schemaOrg, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES | JSON_PRETTY_PRINT | JSON_HEX_TAG);
         }
 
         // Render template
diff --git a/app/Views/frontend/home-sections/latest_books_title.php b/app/Views/frontend/home-sections/latest_books_title.php
index 94e6f2ea9..30d5d94b5 100644
--- a/app/Views/frontend/home-sections/latest_books_title.php
+++ b/app/Views/frontend/home-sections/latest_books_title.php
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
                 <i class="fas fa-plus"></i>
                 <?= __("Carica Altri") ?>
             </button>
-            <a href="<?= $legacyCatalogRoute ?>" class="btn-cta">
+            <a href="<?= htmlspecialchars($legacyCatalogRoute, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') ?>" class="btn-cta">
                 <i class="fas fa-th-large"></i>
                 <?= __("Visualizza Tutto il Catalogo") ?>
             </a>
diff --git a/app/Views/layout.php b/app/Views/layout.php
index ad840572c..2a1c27e08 100644
--- a/app/Views/layout.php
+++ b/app/Views/layout.php
@@ -1318,7 +1318,7 @@ function initializeDropdowns() {
                     </p>
                     <p class="text-xs text-gray-600 mt-1 group-hover:text-gray-700 transition-colors">${escapeHtml(notif.message || '')}</p>
             ${hasLink ? `
-              <?php $openLabel = json_encode(__('Apri'), JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE); ?>
+              <?php $openLabel = json_encode(__('Apri'), JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE | JSON_HEX_TAG | JSON_HEX_APOS | JSON_HEX_QUOT | JSON_HEX_AMP); ?>
               <div class="mt-3">
                 <button type="button" class="inline-flex items-center gap-2 px-3 py-1.5 text-xs font-semibold text-white bg-gray-900 rounded-lg shadow-sm hover:bg-gray-800 focus:outline-none focus:ring-2 focus:ring-gray-500/40" data-open-link="${escapedLink}">
                   <i class="fas fa-external-link-alt text-[11px]"></i>
diff --git a/app/Views/libri/scheda_libro.php b/app/Views/libri/scheda_libro.php
index 5248bc611..3add05f90 100644
--- a/app/Views/libri/scheda_libro.php
+++ b/app/Views/libri/scheda_libro.php
@@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ class="inline-flex items-center gap-2 px-3 py-1.5 bg-gray-800 text-white text-sm
                     ?>
                     <?php if ($canEdit): ?>
                     <button type="button"
-                            onclick="openEditCopyModal(<?php echo (int)$copia['id']; ?>, '<?php echo htmlspecialchars($copia['stato'] ?? '', ENT_QUOTES); ?>', '<?php echo htmlspecialchars($copia['note'] ?? '', ENT_QUOTES); ?>')"
+                            onclick="openEditCopyModal(<?php echo (int)$copia['id']; ?>, <?php echo htmlspecialchars((string) json_encode($copia['stato'] ?? '', JSON_HEX_TAG | JSON_HEX_APOS | JSON_HEX_QUOT | JSON_HEX_AMP | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); ?>, <?php echo htmlspecialchars((string) json_encode($copia['note'] ?? '', JSON_HEX_TAG | JSON_HEX_APOS | JSON_HEX_QUOT | JSON_HEX_AMP | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); ?>)"
                             class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-900 transition-colors"
                             title="<?= __("Modifica stato") ?>">
                       <i class="fas fa-edit"></i>
@@ -1070,7 +1070,7 @@ class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-900 transition-colors"
                     <?php endif; ?>
                     <?php if ($canDelete): ?>
                     <button type="button"
-                            onclick="confirmDeleteCopy(<?php echo (int)$copia['id']; ?>, '<?php echo htmlspecialchars($copia['numero_inventario'], ENT_QUOTES); ?>')"
+                            onclick="confirmDeleteCopy(<?php echo (int)$copia['id']; ?>, <?php echo htmlspecialchars((string) json_encode($copia['numero_inventario'] ?? '', JSON_HEX_TAG | JSON_HEX_APOS | JSON_HEX_QUOT | JSON_HEX_AMP | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); ?>)"
                             class="text-red-600 hover:text-red-900 transition-colors"
                             title="<?= __("Elimina copia") ?>">
                       <i class="fas fa-trash"></i>
@@ -1978,7 +1978,7 @@ function confirmDeleteCopy(copyId, numeroInventario) {
       if (window.Swal) {
         Swal.fire({
           title: __('Elimina copia'),
-          html: `${__('Sei sicuro di voler eliminare la copia')} <strong>${numeroInventario}</strong>?<br><span class="text-sm text-gray-600">${__('Questa azione non può essere annullata.')}</span>`,
+          html: `${__('Sei sicuro di voler eliminare la copia')} <strong>${escapeHtml(numeroInventario)}</strong>?<br><span class="text-sm text-gray-600">${__('Questa azione non può essere annullata.')}</span>`,
           icon: 'warning',
           showCancelButton: true,
           confirmButtonText: __('Sì, elimina'),
diff --git a/public/index.php b/public/index.php
index c99697922..9def79449 100644
--- a/public/index.php
+++ b/public/index.php
@@ -277,7 +277,18 @@
     $forceHttps = $forceHttpsFromDb || (getenv('APP_ENV') === 'production' && $forceHttpsFromEnv);
 
     if ($forceHttps) {
+        // Prefer the configured canonical host over the raw Host header so an
+        // attacker-supplied Host on a catch-all vhost cannot turn the HTTPS
+        // upgrade into an open redirect (https://evil.tld/…).
         $host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] ?? 'localhost';
+        $canonicalUrl = getenv('APP_CANONICAL_URL') ?: ($_ENV['APP_CANONICAL_URL'] ?? '');
+        if ($canonicalUrl !== '') {
+            $canonicalParts = parse_url($canonicalUrl);
+            if (!empty($canonicalParts['host'])) {
+                $host = $canonicalParts['host']
+                    . (isset($canonicalParts['port']) ? ':' . (int) $canonicalParts['port'] : '');
+            }
+        }
         $requestUri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ?? '/';
         header('Location: https://' . $host . $requestUri, true, 301);
         exit;
diff --git a/tests/xss-copy-fields-encoding.unit.php b/tests/xss-copy-fields-encoding.unit.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c41c822fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/xss-copy-fields-encoding.unit.php
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+<?php
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+/**
+ * Security guard for the per-copy fields rendered into inline onclick handlers
+ * on the admin book-detail page (app/Views/libri/scheda_libro.php).
+ *
+ * numero_inventario / stato / note are staff-writable free text (copy-tracking
+ * #238). They were emitted into `onclick="fn(id, '<value>')"` with only
+ * htmlspecialchars(ENT_QUOTES). That is the WRONG encoding for a JS string
+ * inside an HTML attribute: the browser HTML-decodes the attribute (`&#039;`→`'`)
+ * BEFORE the JS parser runs, so a value like `');alert(1)//` breaks out of the
+ * string and executes — a stored XSS that fires in another admin's browser when
+ * they click the copy edit/delete button.
+ *
+ * The fix wraps the value in json_encode() with the JSON_HEX_* flags (so the JS
+ * string cannot be broken) and then htmlspecialchars() (so the JSON's delimiting
+ * quotes cannot terminate the HTML attribute). This test reproduces that exact
+ * expression and asserts the rendered handler is inert for every payload.
+ *
+ * Run:  php tests/xss-copy-fields-encoding.unit.php   (exit 0 iff all pass)
+ */
+
+$pass = 0;
+$fail = 0;
+$check = static function (bool $ok, string $label) use (&$pass, &$fail): void {
+    if ($ok) { $pass++; echo "  OK  {$label}\n"; }
+    else     { $fail++; echo "  FAIL {$label}\n"; }
+};
+
+/** The exact PHP expression scheda_libro.php now uses for a copy field. */
+$encode = static fn (string $value): string => htmlspecialchars(
+    (string) json_encode($value, JSON_HEX_TAG | JSON_HEX_APOS | JSON_HEX_QUOT | JSON_HEX_AMP | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE),
+    ENT_QUOTES,
+    'UTF-8'
+);
+
+/**
+ * Emulate a browser: the HTML attribute value is HTML-decoded, then the JS
+ * argument is parsed. We assert the decoded-then-evaluated argument equals the
+ * original string exactly (no breakout), and that neither the raw nor the
+ * HTML-decoded attribute can terminate the attribute or the JS string early.
+ */
+echo "A. onclick JS-string context — no breakout\n";
+$payloads = [
+    'string-break-alert'  => "');alert(document.domain)//",
+    'double-quote-break'  => '");alert(1)//',
+    'tag-inject'          => '</script><script>alert(1)</script>',
+    'img-onerror'         => '<img src=x onerror=alert(1)>',
+    'attr-break'          => '"><svg onload=alert(1)>',
+    'backslash'           => "\\');alert(1)//",
+    'newline'             => "a\n');alert(1)//",
+    'unicode-quote'       => "\u{2028}');alert(1)//",
+    'plain-code'          => 'INV-001',
+    'quotes-mix'          => 'O\'Brien "the" <b>bold</b>',
+];
+
+foreach ($payloads as $name => $raw) {
+    $attr = $encode($raw);
+
+    // 1. The rendered attribute value must not contain a raw " that would end
+    //    the double-quoted onclick="…" attribute early.
+    $check(!str_contains($attr, '"'), "payload '{$name}': no raw double-quote in attribute");
+
+    // 2. HTML-decode the attribute the way a browser does before running the JS.
+    $decoded = html_entity_decode($attr, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
+
+    // 3. The decoded text is a JS expression argument: `"<escaped>"`. It must be
+    //    a single well-formed JS string literal — i.e. exactly one opening and
+    //    one closing unescaped double quote, with nothing after it. json_decode
+    //    parses JS/JSON string escapes identically, so it recovers the original.
+    $recovered = json_decode($decoded, true);
+    $check($recovered === $raw,
+        "payload '{$name}': JS string literal round-trips to the original (no breakout)");
+
+    // 4. Belt-and-suspenders: the decoded literal has no unescaped `'`/`"`/`<`
+    //    that could break the string or the surrounding markup, apart from the
+    //    two delimiting quotes.
+    $inner = substr($decoded, 1, -1); // strip the delimiting quotes
+    $check(!preg_match('/(?<!\\\\)["\']/', $inner) && !str_contains($inner, '<') && !str_contains($inner, '>'),
+        "payload '{$name}': inner JS string has no live quote/angle-bracket");
+}
+
+echo "\n" . ($fail === 0 ? "ALL {$pass} PASS\n" : "{$pass} PASS, {$fail} FAIL\n");
+exit($fail === 0 ? 0 : 1);
diff --git a/tests/xss-copy-fields.spec.js b/tests/xss-copy-fields.spec.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..57c1ba7b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/xss-copy-fields.spec.js
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+// @ts-check
+//
+// End-to-end proof that staff-writable per-copy fields (numero_inventario, note)
+// cannot execute script on the admin book-detail page. These fields (copy
+// tracking #238) were emitted into inline onclick handlers with only
+// htmlspecialchars(ENT_QUOTES) — the wrong encoding for a JS string inside an
+// HTML attribute — and numero_inventario was also dropped raw into a SweetAlert
+// `html:` template. A copy code like `');window.x=1//<img src=x onerror=…>` then
+// ran in another admin's browser on click of the copy edit/delete button.
+//
+// The fix json_encode()s the values for the onclick handlers and escapeHtml()s
+// the SweetAlert body. This spec seeds a copy carrying a live payload straight
+// into the DB, opens the REAL book-detail page, clicks the buttons, and asserts
+// nothing executes — while the pure-PHP encoding is covered by
+// tests/xss-copy-fields-encoding.unit.php.
+//
+// Run: /tmp/run-e2e.sh tests/xss-copy-fields.spec.js \
+//        --config=tests/playwright.config.js --workers=1
+
+const { test, expect } = require('@playwright/test');
+const { execFileSync } = require('child_process');
+
+const BASE = process.env.E2E_BASE_URL || 'http://localhost:8081';
+const ADMIN_EMAIL = process.env.E2E_ADMIN_EMAIL || '';
+const ADMIN_PASS = process.env.E2E_ADMIN_PASS || '';
+const DB_USER = process.env.E2E_DB_USER || '';
+const DB_PASS = process.env.E2E_DB_PASS || '';
+const DB_NAME = process.env.E2E_DB_NAME || '';
+const DB_SOCKET = process.env.E2E_DB_SOCKET || '';
+const DB_HOST = process.env.E2E_DB_HOST || '';
+const DB_PORT = process.env.E2E_DB_PORT || '';
+
+test.skip(!ADMIN_EMAIL || !ADMIN_PASS || !DB_USER || !DB_NAME, 'Missing E2E env (admin/DB)');
+
+function mysqlArgs(sql) {
+  const args = [];
+  if (DB_HOST) { args.push('-h', DB_HOST); if (DB_PORT) args.push('-P', DB_PORT); }
+  else if (DB_SOCKET) { args.push('-S', DB_SOCKET); }
+  args.push('-u', DB_USER, DB_NAME, '-N', '-B', '-e', sql);
+  return args;
+}
+function dbQuery(sql) {
+  return execFileSync('mysql', mysqlArgs(sql), {
+    encoding: 'utf-8', timeout: 10000, env: { ...process.env, MYSQL_PWD: DB_PASS },
+  }).trim();
+}
+const sqlStr = (s) => "'" + String(s).replace(/\\/g, '\\\\').replace(/'/g, "\\'") + "'";
+
+async function loginAsAdmin(page) {
+  await page.goto(`${BASE}/admin/dashboard`);
+  const emailField = page.locator('input[name="email"]');
+  if (await emailField.isVisible({ timeout: 3000 }).catch(() => false)) {
+    await emailField.fill(ADMIN_EMAIL);
+    await page.fill('input[name="password"]', ADMIN_PASS);
+    await page.click('button[type="submit"]');
+    await page.waitForURL(/.*(?:dashboard|admin).*/);
+  }
+}
+
+test.describe('Per-copy field XSS hardening', () => {
+  const uniq = Date.now();
+  // numero_inventario feeds BOTH the confirmDeleteCopy onclick AND the SweetAlert
+  // html; note feeds the openEditCopyModal onclick. Each payload flips a distinct
+  // window flag iff it executes.
+  const invPayload = `');window.__xssInvJs=true;//<img src=x onerror="window.__xssInvHtml=true">_${uniq}`;
+  const notePayload = `');window.__xssNoteJs=true;//_${uniq}`;
+  let bookId = 0;
+  let copyId = 0;
+
+  test.beforeAll(() => {
+    bookId = parseInt(dbQuery('SELECT id FROM libri WHERE deleted_at IS NULL ORDER BY id LIMIT 1'), 10);
+    if (!bookId) return;
+    // 'danneggiato' → the book-detail view shows BOTH the edit and delete buttons.
+    dbQuery(
+      `INSERT INTO copie (libro_id, numero_inventario, stato, note) VALUES ` +
+      `(${bookId}, ${sqlStr(invPayload)}, 'danneggiato', ${sqlStr(notePayload)})`
+    );
+    copyId = parseInt(dbQuery(`SELECT id FROM copie WHERE numero_inventario = ${sqlStr(invPayload)}`), 10);
+  });
+
+  test.afterAll(() => {
+    if (copyId) dbQuery(`DELETE FROM copie WHERE id = ${copyId}`);
+  });
+
+  test('malicious copy code/note never execute on the book-detail page', async ({ page }) => {
+    test.skip(!bookId || !copyId, 'could not seed a copy (no book in DB)');
+
+    let dialogFired = false;
+    page.on('dialog', (d) => { dialogFired = true; d.dismiss().catch(() => {}); });
+
+    await loginAsAdmin(page);
+    await page.goto(`${BASE}/admin/books/${bookId}`);
+    await page.waitForLoadState('domcontentloaded');
+
+    const delBtn = page.locator(`button[onclick^="confirmDeleteCopy(${copyId},"]`);
+    const editBtn = page.locator(`button[onclick^="openEditCopyModal(${copyId},"]`);
+    await expect(delBtn).toHaveCount(1);
+
+    // Structural: the fix emits a json-encoded string (double-quote delimited),
+    // never the old single-quoted `confirmDeleteCopy(id, '…')` breakout form.
+    const delOnclick = await delBtn.getAttribute('onclick');
+    expect(delOnclick).toMatch(new RegExp(`^confirmDeleteCopy\\(${copyId},\\s*"`));
+    const editOnclick = await editBtn.getAttribute('onclick');
+    expect(editOnclick).toMatch(new RegExp(`^openEditCopyModal\\(${copyId},`));
+
+    // Behavioural — DELETE path: onclick must not break out, and the SweetAlert
+    // body must escape the code (no injected <img> onerror).
+    await delBtn.click();
+    await page.locator('.swal2-popup').waitFor({ state: 'visible', timeout: 8000 });
+    // The payload must appear as inert TEXT, not as a live <img> element.
+    const liveImg = await page.evaluate(() =>
+      document.querySelectorAll('.swal2-html-container img[src="x"]').length);
+    expect(liveImg, 'the SweetAlert body must not contain a live injected <img>').toBe(0);
+    await page.locator('.swal2-cancel').click();
+    await page.locator('.swal2-popup').waitFor({ state: 'hidden', timeout: 5000 });
+
+    // Behavioural — EDIT path: onclick must not break out.
+    await editBtn.click();
+    await page.waitForTimeout(300); // let the modal + any (non-)injected code settle
+
+    // Nothing the payloads would have set may exist, and no dialog may have fired.
+    const flags = await page.evaluate(() => ({
+      invJs: /** @type {any} */ (window).__xssInvJs ?? null,
+      invHtml: /** @type {any} */ (window).__xssInvHtml ?? null,
+      noteJs: /** @type {any} */ (window).__xssNoteJs ?? null,
+    }));
+    expect(flags.invJs, 'confirmDeleteCopy onclick must not break out').toBeNull();
+    expect(flags.invHtml, 'SweetAlert html must escape the copy code').toBeNull();
+    expect(flags.noteJs, 'openEditCopyModal onclick must not break out').toBeNull();
+    expect(dialogFired, 'no dialog may be raised by the payloads').toBe(false);
+  });
+});