diff --git a/handlers_test.go b/handlers_test.go
index 4c3de8d..5f07184 100644
--- a/handlers_test.go
+++ b/handlers_test.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package rushlink
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"mime/multipart"
 	"net/http"
@@ -14,13 +15,14 @@ import (
 
 	"gitea.hashru.nl/dsprenkels/rushlink/internal/db"
 	"github.com/gorilla/mux"
+	"go.etcd.io/bbolt"
 )
 
 // createTemporaryRouter initializes a rushlink instance, with temporary
 // filestore and database.
 //
 // It will use testing.T.Cleanup to cleanup after itself.
-func createTemporaryRouter(t *testing.T) *mux.Router {
+func createTemporaryRouter(t *testing.T) (*mux.Router, *rushlink) {
 	tempDir, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "rushlink-tmp-*")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("creating temporary directory: %s\n", err)
@@ -55,7 +57,7 @@ func createTemporaryRouter(t *testing.T) *mux.Router {
 		fs:      fileStore,
 		rootURL: rootURL,
 	}
-	return CreateMainRouter(&rl)
+	return CreateMainRouter(&rl), &rl
 }
 
 // checkStatusCode checks whether the status code from a recorded response is equal
@@ -78,7 +80,7 @@ func checkLocationHeader(t *testing.T, rr *httptest.ResponseRecorder, expected s
 }
 
 func TestIssue43(t *testing.T) {
-	srv := createTemporaryRouter(t)
+	srv, _ := createTemporaryRouter(t)
 
 	// Put a URL with a fragment identifier into the database.
 	var body bytes.Buffer
@@ -110,3 +112,38 @@ func TestIssue43(t *testing.T) {
 	checkStatusCode(t, rr, http.StatusTemporaryRedirect)
 	checkLocationHeader(t, rr, "https://example.com#fragment")
 }
+
+func TestIssue53(t *testing.T) {
+	srv, rl := createTemporaryRouter(t)
+
+	// Put a URL with a fragment identifier into the database.
+	var body bytes.Buffer
+	form := multipart.NewWriter(&body)
+	if _, err := form.CreateFormFile("file", "../directory-traversal/file.txt"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	form.Close()
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "/", bytes.NewReader(body.Bytes()))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", form.FormDataContentType())
+	rr := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	srv.ServeHTTP(rr, req)
+	checkStatusCode(t, rr, http.StatusFound)
+
+	// Check that any attempt to do directory traversal has failed.
+	rl.db.Bolt.View(func(tx *bbolt.Tx) error {
+		fus, err := db.AllFileUploads(tx)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		for _, fu := range fus {
+			if strings.ContainsAny(fu.FileName, "/\\") {
+				t.Fatalf(fmt.Sprintf("found a slash in file name: %v", fu.FileName))
+			}
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+
+}
diff --git a/internal/db/fileupload.go b/internal/db/fileupload.go
index 3f3829e..f390ef2 100644
--- a/internal/db/fileupload.go
+++ b/internal/db/fileupload.go
@@ -126,7 +126,8 @@ func NewFileUpload(fs *FileStore, r io.Reader, fileName string) (*FileUpload, er
 	contentType := http.DetectContentType(tmpBuf.Bytes())
 
 	// Open the file on disk for writing
-	filePath := fs.filePath(id, fileName)
+	baseName := filepath.Base(fileName)
+	filePath := fs.filePath(id, baseName)
 	if err := os.Mkdir(path.Dir(filePath), dirMode); err != nil {
 		return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "creating file dir")
 	}
@@ -149,7 +150,7 @@ func NewFileUpload(fs *FileStore, r io.Reader, fileName string) (*FileUpload, er
 	fu := &FileUpload{
 		State:       FileUploadStatePresent,
 		ID:          id,
-		FileName:    fileName,
+		FileName:    baseName,
 		ContentType: contentType,
 		Checksum:    hash.Sum32(),
 	}
@@ -169,6 +170,27 @@ func GetFileUpload(tx *bolt.Tx, id uuid.UUID) (*FileUpload, error) {
 	return decodeFileUpload(storedBytes)
 }
 
+// AllFileUploads tries to retrieve all FileUpload objects from the bolt database.
+func AllFileUploads(tx *bolt.Tx) ([]FileUpload, error) {
+	bucket := tx.Bucket([]byte(BucketFileUpload))
+	if bucket == nil {
+		return nil, errors.Errorf("bucket %v does not exist", BucketFileUpload)
+	}
+	var fus []FileUpload
+	err := bucket.ForEach(func(_, storedBytes []byte) error {
+		fu, err := decodeFileUpload(storedBytes)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		fus = append(fus, *fu)
+		return nil
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return fus, nil
+}
+
 func decodeFileUpload(storedBytes []byte) (*FileUpload, error) {
 	fu := &FileUpload{}
 	err := gobmarsh.Unmarshal(storedBytes, fu)