X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/eac31eff5c9147792c2886359b0faa4615e51e77..a435a6686ab1fa60805a6baf7ff58d47e6e148d5:/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn b/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn index a064c4901..0aa0ab3c0 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ -[[template id=plugin name=htmlscrubber core=1 included=1 -author="[[Joey]]"]] -[[tag type/html type/core]] +[[template id=plugin name=htmlscrubber core=1 author="[[Joey]]"]] +[[tag type/html]] This plugin is enabled by default. It sanitizes the html on pages it renders to avoid XSS attacks and the like. @@ -18,12 +17,16 @@ While I believe that this makes ikiwiki as resistant to malicious html content as anything else on the web, I cannot guarantee that it will actually protect every user of every browser from every browser security hole, badly designed feature, etc. I can provide NO WARRANTY, like it says -in ikiwiki's [GPL](GPL) license. +in ikiwiki's [[GPL]] license. The web's security model is *fundamentally broken*; ikiwiki's html sanitisation is only a patch on the underlying gaping hole that is your web browser. +Note that enabling or disabling the htmlscrubber plugin also affects some other +HTML-related functionality, such as whether [[meta]] allows potentially unsafe +HTML tags. + ---- Some examples of embedded javascript that won't be let through when this