Add a section on HTML and JavaScript in post content#91
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Addresses WordPress#52. Adds an h4 subsection under 'Further Security Risks and Concerns' explaining the unfiltered_html capability: which roles have it by default, what KSES filtering does for lower-privilege roles, and how site owners can revoke the capability when their threat model requires it.
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Summary
Closes #52. Adds an
<h4>subsection underFurther Security Risks and ConcernstitledHTML and JavaScript in Post Content, placed alongside the existing XXE and SSRF entries.Does not remove the brief existing OWASP A3 mention, but after #88 merges, that reference will be eliminated, and a shorter OWASP summary mention will appear under the A05:2025 — Injection paragraph. That new paragraph still contains a brief
unfiltered_html/KSES sentence:The new section explains that the
unfiltered_htmlcapability is an intentional design choice rather than a vulnerability, covering:unfiltered_htmlper role when their threat model requires it, and that hosts and security plugins often do this by default.The framing matches @johnbillion's note in #52 that this is the most common subject of invalid reports received by the security team — the section is informational, not alarmist.
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