others edit pages in your wiki, then some possible security issues do need
to be kept in mind.
+----
+
# Probable holes
-## html attacks
+## XSS holes in CGI output
-ikiwiki does not attempt to do any santization of the html on the wiki.
-[[MarkDown]] allows embedding of arbitrary html into a markdown document. If
-you let anyone else edit files on the wiki, then anyone can have fun exploiting
-the web browser bug of the day. This type of attack is typically referred
-to as an XSS attack ([google](http://www.google.com/search?q=xss+attack)).
+ikiwiki has not yet been audited to ensure that all cgi script input/output is
+sanitised to prevent XSS attacks.
-## image files etc attacks
+## image file etc attacks
If it enounters a file type it does not understand, ikiwiki just copies it
into place. So if you let users add any kind of file they like, they can
-upload images, movies, windows executables, css files, etc. If these files exploit security holes in the browser of someone who's viewing the wiki, that can be a security problem.
+upload images, movies, windows executables, css files, etc (though not html
+files). If these files exploit security holes in the browser of someone
+who's viewing the wiki, that can be a security problem.
Of course nobody else seems to worry about this in other wikis, so should we?
-## web server attacks
+## svn commit logs
-If your web server does any parsing of special sorts of files (for example,
-server parsed html files), then if you let anyone else add files to the wiki,
-they can try to use this to exploit your web server.
+Anyone with svn commit access can forge "web commit from foo" and make it
+appear on [[RecentChanges]] like foo committed. One way to avoid this would
+be to limit web commits to those done by a certian user.
+
+It's actually possible to force a whole series of svn commits to appear to
+have come just before yours, by forging svn log output. This could be
+guarded against by using svn log --xml.
+
+ikiwiki escapes any html in svn commit logs to prevent other mischief.
+
+----
+
+# Potential gotchas
+
+_(Things not to do.)_
## multiple accessors of wiki directory
-If multiple people can write to the source directory ikiwiki is using, or to the destination directory it writes files to, then one can cause trouble for the other when they run ikiwiki through symlink attacks.
+If multiple people can write to the source directory ikiwiki is using, or
+to the destination directory it writes files to, then one can cause trouble
+for the other when they run ikiwiki through symlink attacks.
So it's best if only one person can ever write to those directories.
Just don't do it. [[ikiwiki.setup]] is *not* used as the setup file for
this wiki, BTW.
-## svn commit logs
-
-Anyone with svn commit access can forge "web commit from foo" and make it appear on [[RecentChanges]] like foo committed. One way to avoid this would be to limit web commits to those done by a certian user.
-
-It's actually possible to force a whole series of svn commits to appear to
-have come just before yours, by forging svn log output. This could be
-guarded against by using svn log --xml.
-
-ikiwiki escapes any html in svn commit logs to prevent other mischief.
-
## page locking can be bypassed via direct svn commits
A [[lock]]ed page can only be edited on the web by an admin, but
design, although a subversion pre-commit hook could be used to prevent
editing of locked pages when using subversion, if you really need to.
+## web server attacks
+
+If your web server does any parsing of special sorts of files (for example,
+server parsed html files), then if you let anyone else add files to the wiki,
+they can try to use this to exploit your web server.
+
----
# Hopefully non-holes
-(AKA, the assumptions that will be the root of most security holes...)
+_(AKA, the assumptions that will be the root of most security holes...)_
## exploting ikiwiki with bad content
ikiwiki does not expose untrusted data to the shell. In fact it doesn't use
system() at all, and the only use of backticks is on data supplied by the
-wiki admin and untainted filenames. And it runs with taint checks on of course..
+wiki admin and untainted filenames. And it runs with taint checks on of
+course..
## cgi data security
Cracking the password only allows editing the wiki as that user though.
If you care, you can use https, I suppose.
+----
+
# Fixed holes
-_(Unless otherwise noted, these were discovered and immediatey fixed by the ikiwiki developers.)_
+_(Unless otherwise noted, these were discovered and immediatey fixed by the
+ikiwiki developers.)_
## destination directory file replacement
rendering the wrong thing. This is not currently possible, but must be kept
in mind in the future when for example adding support for generating html
pages from source with some other extension.
+
+## XSS attacks in page content
+
+ikiwiki supports [[HtmlSanitization]], though it can be turned off.
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