diff --git a/servers/nextjs/app/(presentation-generator)/utils/others.ts b/servers/nextjs/app/(presentation-generator)/utils/others.ts
index 156a6a6b..cd9f8307 100644
--- a/servers/nextjs/app/(presentation-generator)/utils/others.ts
+++ b/servers/nextjs/app/(presentation-generator)/utils/others.ts
@@ -218,14 +218,56 @@ export const ThemeImagePrompt = {
 };
 
 
-export function sanitizeFilename(filename: string): string {
-  // Remove emojis and invalid filename characters
-  return filename
-    .replace(/[\uD800-\uDBFF][\uDC00-\uDFFF]/g, '') // Remove surrogate pairs (emojis)
-    .replace(/[^\x00-\x7F]/g, '') // Remove non-ASCII characters (including remaining emojis)
-    .replace(/[\\/:*?"<>|]/g, '_'); // Replace invalid filename characters
+export function sanitizeFilename(input: string, replacement = '') {
+  // Remove any null bytes first
+  let sanitized = input.replace(/\0/g, '');
+  
+  // Remove or replace path traversal sequences
+  sanitized = sanitized.replace(/\.\./g, replacement);
+  
+  // Regular filename sanitization (but preserve forward slashes for paths)
+  const illegalRe = /[\?<>\\:\*\|"]/g; // Removed / from illegal characters
+  const controlRe = /[\x00-\x1f\x80-\x9f]/g;
+  const reservedRe = /^\.+$/;
+  const windowsReservedRe = /^(con|prn|aux|nul|com\d|lpt\d)$/i;
+  const windowsTrailingRe = /[\. ]+$/;
+
+  sanitized = sanitized
+    .replace(illegalRe, replacement)
+    .replace(controlRe, replacement);
+
+  // Split path into segments to handle reserved names and trailing characters per segment
+  const pathSegments = sanitized.split('/');
+  const cleanedSegments = pathSegments.map(segment => {
+    let cleanSegment = segment
+      .replace(reservedRe, replacement)
+      .replace(windowsReservedRe, replacement)
+      .replace(windowsTrailingRe, replacement);
+    
+    // Remove any remaining path traversal attempts in individual segments
+    cleanSegment = cleanSegment.replace(/\.\./g, replacement);
+    
+    return cleanSegment;
+  });
+
+  sanitized = cleanedSegments.join('/');
+
+  // Remove any remaining path traversal attempts after other replacements
+  sanitized = sanitized.replace(/\.\./g, replacement);
+  
+  // Normalize multiple consecutive slashes to single slash
+  sanitized = sanitized.replace(/\/+/g, '/');
+
+  if (sanitized.length === 0) {
+    sanitized = 'file';
+  }
+  // Note: We don't apply MAX_FILENAME_LENGTH to full paths as they can be longer than 255 chars
+  // Individual filename components should still be reasonable length
+
+  return sanitized;
 }
 
+
 export function getStaticFileUrl(filepath: string): string {
   const pathParts = filepath.split('/');
   const relevantPath = pathParts.slice(2).join('/');
diff --git a/servers/nextjs/app/api/read-file/route.ts b/servers/nextjs/app/api/read-file/route.ts
index fefd25ec..084945ff 100644
--- a/servers/nextjs/app/api/read-file/route.ts
+++ b/servers/nextjs/app/api/read-file/route.ts
@@ -1,22 +1,25 @@
 import { NextResponse } from 'next/server';
 import fs from 'fs';
 import path from 'path';
+import { sanitizeFilename } from '@/app/(presentation-generator)/utils/others';
+
 
 export async function POST(request: Request) {
   try {
     const { filePath } = await request.json();
- const normalizedPath = path.normalize(filePath);
-   const allowedBaseDirs = [
-      process.env.APP_DATA_DIRECTORY || '/app/user_data',
-      process.env.TEMP_DIRECTORY || '/tmp',
-      '/app/user_data' 
-    ];    
+   
+      const sanitizedFilePath = sanitizeFilename(filePath);
+      const normalizedPath = path.normalize(sanitizedFilePath);
+      const allowedBaseDirs = [
+        process.env.APP_DATA_DIRECTORY || '/app/user_data',
+        process.env.TEMP_DIRECTORY || '/tmp',
+        '/app/user_data' 
+      ];
       const resolvedPath = fs.realpathSync(path.resolve(normalizedPath));
       const isPathAllowed = allowedBaseDirs.some(baseDir => {
       const resolvedBaseDir = fs.realpathSync(path.resolve(baseDir));
       return resolvedPath.startsWith(resolvedBaseDir + path.sep) || resolvedPath === resolvedBaseDir;
     });
-
     if (!isPathAllowed) {
       console.error('Unauthorized file access attempt:', resolvedPath);
       return NextResponse.json(