Re: Using kses HTML filter

"Paul Lesniewski" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Tomas Kuliavas
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thijs Kinkhorst <kink <at> squirrelmail.org> writes:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> It's well known that our current HTML filter is based on blacklisting, and
>> although there haven't been recent bugs found, blacklisting is an
>> inherently dangerous approach. A whitelisting filter this therefore more
>> desirable.
>>
>> Has anyone taken a look at KSES before? It's a plug-and-play HTML filter
>> on a whitelist based approach. I'm not sure how good it would work with
>> SquirrelMail, but it may be interesting to try it out if noone has done
>> that before.
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=302996
>
> Read bugtraq information about kses.

You could provide a link since you already seem to have found something.

Maybe:

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28599/info
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490402

> SquirrelMail uses html_filter which can be switched to blacklist or whitelist
> mode. You are using blacklist.

There is also this more recent incarnation of kses:

http://bioinformatics.org/phplabware/internal_utilities/htmLawed

Or:

http://htmlpurifier.org/

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