1 [[!template id=plugin name=htmlscrubber core=1 author="[[Joey]]"]]
4 This plugin is enabled by default. It sanitizes the html on pages it renders
5 to avoid XSS attacks and the like.
7 It excludes all html tags and attributes except for those that are
8 whitelisted using the same lists as used by Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed
10 <http://web.archive.org/web/20110726052341/http://feedparser.org/docs/html-sanitization.html>.
11 Notably it strips `style` and `link` tags, and the `style` attribute.
13 Any attributes that could be used to specify a URL are checked to ensure
14 that they are known, safe schemes. It will also block embedded javascript
17 It uses the [[!cpan HTML::Scrubber]] perl module to perform its html
18 sanitisation, and this perl module also deals with various entity encoding
21 While I believe that this makes ikiwiki as resistant to malicious html
22 content as anything else on the web, I cannot guarantee that it will
23 actually protect every user of every browser from every browser security
24 hole, badly designed feature, etc. I can provide NO WARRANTY, like it says
25 in ikiwiki's [[GPL]] license.
27 The web's security model is *fundamentally broken*; ikiwiki's html
28 sanitisation is only a patch on the underlying gaping hole that is your web
31 Note that enabling or disabling the htmlscrubber plugin also affects some
32 other HTML-related functionality, such as whether [[meta]] allows
33 potentially unsafe HTML tags.
35 The `htmlscrubber_skip` configuration setting can be used to skip scrubbing
36 of some pages. Set it to a [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]], such as
37 `posts/* and !comment(*) and !*/Discussion`, and pages matching that can have
38 all the evil CSS, JavsScript, and unsafe html elements you like. One safe
39 way to use this is to use [[lockedit]] to lock those pages, so only admins
44 Some examples of embedded javascript that won't be let through when this
47 * script tag test <script>window.location='http://example.org';</script>
48 * <span style="background: url(javascript:window.location='http://example.org/')">CSS script test</span>
49 * <span style="any: expression(window.location='http://example.org/')">entity-encoded CSS script test</span>
50 * <span style="any: expression(window.location='http://example.org/')">entity-encoded CSS script test</span>
51 * <a href="javascript:alert('foo')">click me</a>