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| author | Yuval Kordov <uberllama@gmail.com> | 2014-02-12 08:22:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Yuval Kordov <uberllama@gmail.com> | 2014-02-12 08:22:13 -0700 |
| commit | 30639e1d107b70abc338bc786943db1d88d31e0d (patch) | |
| tree | 73a30ecba1574bb061db9285217a949cd287bdb0 /activesupport/lib/active_support | |
| parent | 7d5454dcdd7c037658bc62ab3af177e5ca3b69ad (diff) | |
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Amended json_escape comment to clarify that user-generated content must still be html_escaped if being inserted ingot he DOM via JQuery's html() method.
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| -rw-r--r-- | activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb index eb02b6a442..1f9a953d93 100644 --- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb +++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ class ERB # automatically flag the result as HTML safe, since the raw value is unsafe to # use inside HTML attributes. # + # If your JSON is being used downstream for insertion into the DOM, be aware of + # whether or not it is being inserted via +html()+. Most JQuery plugins do this. + # If that is the case, be sure to +html_escape+ or +sanitize+ any user-generated + # content returned by your JSON. + # # If you need to output JSON elsewhere in your HTML, you can just do something # like this, as any unsafe characters (including quotation marks) will be # automatically escaped for you: |