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Reduce risk of XSS #1051

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@Rob--W Rob--W commented Nov 9, 2016

Prism and its plugins sometimes mixes potentially unsafe input with HTML. In the worst case, this may lead to a XSS vulnerabilities, especially when prism is used to highlight external code.

See the individual commits for the fixes. If you decide to merge them all, don't squash the commits as doing so may obscure the relation between the commit message and the fix.

@Rob--W Rob--W force-pushed the attribute-hardening branch 2 times, most recently from 2507f75 to d8c6062 Compare November 9, 2016 18:23
@Rob--W Rob--W changed the title Skip non-own properties of env.attributes Reduce risk of XSS Nov 9, 2016
Use `Object.keys` instead of a for-in loop to find optional attributes.
The former only grabs keys that are own properties, the latter also
includes inherit properties from `Object.prototype`.
This reduces the risk of XSS if an attacker somehow manages to
manipulate the prototype chain of the Object prototype.
If an attacker has control over the values of the attributes
"data-prompt", "data-user", or "data-host", then XSS was possible.
This fixes the issue, by encoding quotes as the `"` entity.
There is no need for `innerHTML` here. At best nothing happens,
at worst XSS is possible (though the odds are negligible since
the attacker would have to control the detected language).
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Rob--W commented Nov 20, 2016

(rebased because of conflicts in toolbar-plugin.min.js)

@Golmote Can you take a look at this PR and merge it? I tweeted @LeaVerou, but she probably overlooked it.

@Golmote Golmote merged commit 17e33bc into PrismJS:gh-pages Nov 20, 2016
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