X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/8f8959c96ecc69ecc75b5e5c76b52345afce94d8..2498753310ab26803bf899f7c1cb2b21aa313ab0:/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn b/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn index e3652a847..1255d7723 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ -[[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. @@ -10,7 +9,7 @@ whitelisted using the same lists as used by Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed Parser, documented at . 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. @@ -24,6 +23,10 @@ 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