I use a whitelist of tags and attributes for each tag for any input that came through an HTML WYSIWYG editor, eg FCK HTML editor.
Dave Rolsky wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > >>> I think the person saying it was wrong was implying that a better approach >>> is to use a real HTML parser to remove unwanted tags. Take a look at a >>> module like HTML::Scrubber. >>> >> My best practice is simply to get mason to escape everything, by >> default[1]. Having to explicitly unescape things in order to let >> through an XSS attack is a very good idea, IMHO. >> > > I don't like turning on the default escape flags, but that's just habit, I > guess. It's not a bad idea. I'm pretty careful about escaping everything > except for strings/numbers I know are safe (like ids from the database). > > But generally speaking, you should always escape your output, either by > default or explicitly. > > > -dave > > /*=================================================== > VegGuide.Org www.BookIRead.com > Your guide to all that's veg. My book blog > ===================================================*/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Mason-users mailing list > Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users
