From e5f97777ad490cb32a72499818e3a6b9262f1dbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:27:59 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] update --- doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn b/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn index d7bcf8099..b32c264df 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn @@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ whitelisted using the same lists as used by Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed Parser, documented at . Notably it strips `style` and `link` tags, and the `style` attribute. +All attributes that can be used to specify an url are checked to make sure +that the url is in a known, safe scheme, and to block embedded javascript +in such urls. + It uses the [[cpan HTML::Scrubber]] perl module to perform its html sanitisation, and this perl module also deals with various entity encoding tricks. @@ -23,9 +27,9 @@ 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. +Note that enabling or disabling the htmlscrubber plugin also affects some +other HTML-related functionality, such as whether [[meta]] allows +potentially unsafe HTML tags. ---- -- 2.44.0