Escape HTML while parsing Markdown documents to remove XSS vulnerabilities (#4)
Here, I opted to use the Markdown parser's detection of HTML so that we don't add another library. This does limit users somewhat, because it means that *no* inline HTML is allowed, but I think this is acceptable: this is a platform for project management, not general-purpose publishing, so inline HTML is probably not necessary. There is a clear upgrade path in the future to add sanitizing instead of escaping tags, if we want. This approach also gives us a clear place to plug in detection of extra things, like custom `@` tags or other features. Reviewed-on: #4
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let parser = markdown::Parser::new_ext(&self.content, options);
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let parser = markdown::Parser::new_ext(&self.content, options);
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// If we just process things as they are, we are vulnerable to XSS
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// attacks, since users can inject any HTML they'd like. To prevent
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// this, we convert any parsed HTML to just text. In the future, we can
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// instead sanitize the HTML using something like
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// [ammonia](https://crates.io/crates/ammonia) to make the HTML safer.
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// Draws inspiration from
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// [pulldown-cmark/pulldown-cmark#608](https://github.com/pulldown-cmark/pulldown-cmark/issues/608)
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let escaped = parser.into_iter().map(|event| match event {
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markdown::Event::Html(html) => markdown::Event::Text(html),
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markdown::Event::InlineHtml(html) => markdown::Event::Text(html),
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_ => event,
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});
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let mut html_output = String::new();
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let mut html_output = String::new();
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markdown::html::push_html(&mut html_output, parser);
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markdown::html::push_html(&mut html_output, escaped);
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html_output
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html_output
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}
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}
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