diff --git a/server/lib/sanitize.ts b/server/lib/sanitize.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9eba8a583
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/lib/sanitize.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+/**
+ * Sanitize a string field before inserting into a database TEXT column.
+ *
+ * Two passes are applied:
+ *
+ * 1. Lone UTF-16 surrogates – JavaScript strings can hold unpaired surrogates
+ *    (e.g. \uD800 without a following \uDC00-\uDFFF codepoint). These are
+ *    valid in JS but cannot be encoded as UTF-8, triggering
+ *    `report_invalid_encoding` in SQLite / Postgres. They are replaced with
+ *    the Unicode replacement character U+FFFD so the data is preserved as a
+ *    visible signal that something was malformed.
+ *
+ * 2. Null bytes and C0 control characters – SQLite stores TEXT as
+ *    null-terminated C strings, so \x00 in a value causes
+ *    `report_invalid_encoding`. Bots and scanners routinely inject null bytes
+ *    into URLs (e.g. `/path\u0000.jpg`). All C0 control characters in the
+ *    range \x00-\x1F are stripped except for the three that are legitimate in
+ *    text payloads: HT (\x09), LF (\x0A), and CR (\x0D). DEL (\x7F) is also
+ *    stripped.
+ */
+export function sanitizeString(value: string): string;
+export function sanitizeString(
+    value: string | null | undefined
+): string | undefined;
+export function sanitizeString(
+    value: string | null | undefined
+): string | undefined {
+    if (value == null) return undefined;
+    return (
+        value
+            // Replace lone high surrogates (not followed by a low surrogate)
+            // and lone low surrogates (not preceded by a high surrogate).
+            .replace(
+                /[\uD800-\uDBFF](?![\uDC00-\uDFFF])|(?<![\uD800-\uDBFF])[\uDC00-\uDFFF]/g,
+                "\uFFFD"
+            )
+            // Strip null bytes, C0 control chars (except HT/LF/CR), and DEL.
+            .replace(/[\x00-\x08\x0B\x0C\x0E-\x1F\x7F]/g, "")
+    );
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/server/private/routers/hybrid.ts b/server/private/routers/hybrid.ts
index 0e5d1ec2e..c626e07ba 100644
--- a/server/private/routers/hybrid.ts
+++ b/server/private/routers/hybrid.ts
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ import { verifyResourceAccessToken } from "@server/auth/verifyResourceAccessToke
 import semver from "semver";
 import { maxmindAsnLookup } from "@server/db/maxmindAsn";
 import { checkOrgAccessPolicy } from "@server/lib/checkOrgAccessPolicy";
+import { sanitizeString } from "@server/lib/sanitize";
 
 // Zod schemas for request validation
 const getResourceByDomainParamsSchema = z.strictObject({
@@ -1859,24 +1860,24 @@ hybridRouter.post(
                 })
                 .map((logEntry) => ({
                     timestamp: logEntry.timestamp,
-                    orgId: logEntry.orgId,
-                    actorType: logEntry.actorType,
-                    actor: logEntry.actor,
-                    actorId: logEntry.actorId,
-                    metadata: logEntry.metadata,
+                    orgId: sanitizeString(logEntry.orgId),
+                    actorType: sanitizeString(logEntry.actorType),
+                    actor: sanitizeString(logEntry.actor),
+                    actorId: sanitizeString(logEntry.actorId),
+                    metadata: sanitizeString(logEntry.metadata),
                     action: logEntry.action,
                     resourceId: logEntry.resourceId,
                     reason: logEntry.reason,
-                    location: logEntry.location,
+                    location: sanitizeString(logEntry.location),
                     // userAgent: data.userAgent, // TODO: add this
                     // headers: data.body.headers,
                     // query: data.body.query,
-                    originalRequestURL: logEntry.originalRequestURL,
-                    scheme: logEntry.scheme,
-                    host: logEntry.host,
-                    path: logEntry.path,
-                    method: logEntry.method,
-                    ip: logEntry.ip,
+                    originalRequestURL: sanitizeString(logEntry.originalRequestURL) ?? "",
+                    scheme: sanitizeString(logEntry.scheme) ?? "",
+                    host: sanitizeString(logEntry.host) ?? "",
+                    path: sanitizeString(logEntry.path) ?? "",
+                    method: sanitizeString(logEntry.method) ?? "",
+                    ip: sanitizeString(logEntry.ip),
                     tls: logEntry.tls
                 }));
 
diff --git a/server/routers/badger/logRequestAudit.ts b/server/routers/badger/logRequestAudit.ts
index 4dd5bff99..92d01332e 100644
--- a/server/routers/badger/logRequestAudit.ts
+++ b/server/routers/badger/logRequestAudit.ts
@@ -5,25 +5,7 @@ import cache from "#dynamic/lib/cache";
 import { calculateCutoffTimestamp } from "@server/lib/cleanupLogs";
 import { stripPortFromHost } from "@server/lib/ip";
 
-/**
- * Sanitize a string field by replacing lone UTF-16 surrogates (which cannot
- * be encoded as valid UTF-8) with the Unicode replacement character, and
- * stripping ASCII control characters that are invalid in most text columns.
- */
-function sanitizeString(value: string | undefined | null): string | undefined {
-    if (value == null) return undefined;
-    return (
-        value
-            // Replace lone high surrogates (not followed by a low surrogate)
-            // and lone low surrogates (not preceded by a high surrogate)
-            .replace(
-                /[\uD800-\uDBFF](?![\uDC00-\uDFFF])|(?<![\uD800-\uDBFF])[\uDC00-\uDFFF]/g,
-                "\uFFFD"
-            )
-            // Strip C0 control characters except HT (\x09), LF (\x0A), CR (\x0D)
-            .replace(/[\x00-\x08\x0B\x0C\x0E-\x1F\x7F]/g, "")
-    );
-}
+import { sanitizeString } from "@server/lib/sanitize";
 
 /**