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diff --git a/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile b/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile index 5d0a3f82e8..e4a6e145b9 100644 --- a/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile +++ b/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile @@ -1131,7 +1131,7 @@ h4. Output Safety h5. Motivation -Inserting data into HTML templates needs extra care. For example you can't just interpolate +@review.title+ verbatim into an HTML page. On one hand if the review title is "Flanagan & Matz rules!" the output won't be well-formed because an ampersand has to be escaped as "&". On the other hand, depending on the application that may be a big security hole because users can inject malicious HTML setting a hand-crafted review title. Check out the "section about cross-site scripting in the Security guide":security.html#cross-site-scripting-xss for further information about the risks. +Inserting data into HTML templates needs extra care. For example, you can't just interpolate +@review.title+ verbatim into an HTML page. For one thing, if the review title is "Flanagan & Matz rules!" the output won't be well-formed because an ampersand has to be escaped as "&". What's more, depending on the application, that may be a big security hole because users can inject malicious HTML setting a hand-crafted review title. Check out the "section about cross-site scripting in the Security guide":security.html#cross-site-scripting-xss for further information about the risks. h5. Safe Strings |