X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/19c58ac7c139eb3509f190e9ce746bd9f6237c90..d7deeb44dbd1c0da407ad52f5ed7255fd132547b:/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn b/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn index 4fa11d04e..0aa0ab3c0 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ [[template id=plugin name=htmlscrubber core=1 author="[[Joey]]"]] -[[tag type/html type/core]] +[[tag type/html]] This plugin is enabled by default. It sanitizes the html on pages it renders to avoid XSS attacks and the like. @@ -17,12 +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