X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/93d77673e44c1c4019a2fcbae2e450f095c4426a..da0df8b40fd504b4aacc842cbf41e8ff7689f340:/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn b/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn index 080575c46..08c81212b 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/htmlscrubber.mdwn @@ -6,12 +6,13 @@ 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 . +Parser, documented at +. Notably it strips `style` and `link` tags, and the `style` attribute. -All attributes that can be used to specify an url are checked to make sure -that the url is in a known, safe scheme, and to block embedded javascript -in such urls. +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 @@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ 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 +`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.