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diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/field/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/field/discussion.mdwn index 2ea195e5b..dd9342224 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/field/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/field/discussion.mdwn @@ -224,3 +224,32 @@ smcv's discuission of field author vs meta author above. --[[Joey]] >> accepted ad-hoc fields? >> >> --[[smcv]] + +>>> Your point above about cross-site scripting is a valid one, and something I +>>> hadn't thought of (oops). + +>>> I still want to be able to populate pagetemplate templates with field, because I +>>> use it for a number of things, such as setting which CSS files to use for a +>>> given page, and, as I said, for titles. But apart from the titles, I +>>> realize I've been setting them in places other than the page data itself. +>>> (Another unreleased plugin, `concon`, uses Config::Context to be able to +>>> set variables on a per-site, per-directory and a per-page basis). + +>>> The first possible solution is what you suggested above: for field to only +>>> set values in pagetemplate which are prefixed with *field_*. I don't think +>>> this is quite satisfactory, since that would still mean that people could +>>> put un-scrubbed values into a pagetemplate, albeit they would be values +>>> named field_foo, etc. + +>>> An alternative solution would be to classify field registration as "secure" +>>> and "insecure". Sources such as ymlfront would be insecure, sources such +>>> as concon (or the $config hash) would be secure, since they can't be edited +>>> as pages. Then, when doing pagetemplate substitution (but not ftemplate +>>> substitution) the insecure sources could be HTML-escaped. + +>>> Another problem, as you point out, is special-case fields, such as a number of +>>> those defined by `meta`, which have side-effects associated with them, more +>>> than just providing a value to pagetemplate. Perhaps `meta` should deal with +>>> the side-effects, but use `field` as an interface to get the values of those special fields. + +>>> --[[KathrynAndersen]] |