-[[template id=plugin name=htmlscrubber core=1 author="[[Joey]]"]]
-[[tag type/html]]
+[[!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.
It excludes all html tags and attributes except for those that are
whitelisted using the same lists as used by Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed
-Parser, documented at <http://feedparser.org/docs/html-sanitization.html>.
+Parser, documented at
+<http://web.archive.org/web/20110726052341/http://feedparser.org/docs/html-sanitization.html>.
Notably it strips `style` and `link` tags, and the `style` attribute.
-It uses the [[cpan HTML::Scrubber]] perl module to perform its html
+Any attributes that could be used to specify a URL are checked to ensure
+that they are known, safe schemes. It will also 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.
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.
+
+The `htmlscrubber_skip` configuration setting can be used to skip scrubbing
+of some pages. Set it to a [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]], such as
+`posts/* and !comment(*) and !*/Discussion`, and pages matching that can have
+all the evil CSS, JavsScript, and unsafe html elements you like. One safe
+way to use this is to use [[lockedit]] to lock those pages, so only admins
+can edit them.
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