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@@ -14,3 +14,9 @@ this be used to attack the server where it is built? I know that xslt is
really a full programming language, so I assume at least DOS attacks are
possible. Can it also read other arbitrary files, run other programs, etc?
--[[Joey]]
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+> For the first point, agreed. It should probably check that the data file has a `.xml` extension also. Will fix soon.
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+> For the second point, I think the main concern would be resource usage. XSLT is a pretty limited language; it can read other XML files, but it can't run other programs so far as I know.
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+> -- [[KathrynAndersen]]