Platform/HTML5 sanitizer

Gecko Requirements

• Allow a setting for enabling styles.
• Allow a setting for enabling comments. See bug 572642
• Have three element white lists: HTML, SVG and MathML.
• Have three attribute white lists: HTML, SVG and MathML. The attributes don't depend on the element they are on beyond the element namespace.
• Have a list of attributes that take URLs. Drop the attributes when they have prohibited URLs (after trimming whitespace from the value).
  • Resolve relative URLs into absolute ones using a per fragment base URL. (Is this correct for Gecko reqs?)
  • Why is whitespace trimmed before the security check?
  • However, allow any URL in the src attribute on the img element, because imgs are safe.
    • Why risk this?
• If styles are allowed, sanitize style attribute values. If styles aren't allowed, drop the style attribute.
• Always drop script elements and their contents.
• If styles are disabled, drop style elements and their contents.
• If styles are enabled, sanitize the content of style elements.
• Add the controls attribute to the video and audio elements (if it isn't there already).

Open Questions

• Can stylistic SVG attributes have values that need to be sanitized?
• Should element whitelisting take place after the tree builder algorithm so that the namespace of the element is known?
  • Likely yes.

Non-Gecko Requirements

• Allow form-related elements to be toggled on and off in the white list.