-[[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.
Parser, documented at <http://feedparser.org/docs/html-sanitization.html>.
Notably it strips `style`, `link`, and the `style` attribute.
-It uses the HTML::Scrubber perl module to perform its html
+It uses the [[cpan HTML::Scrubber]] perl module to perform its html
sanitisation, and this perl module also deals with various entity encoding
tricks.
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.
+
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Some examples of embedded javascript that won't be let through when this