xss-utils 1.0.0

Utility functions to prevent possible XSS attack on django/mako templates

Utilities to prevent possible Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks on Django/Mako templates.

Overview

This repo houses utility functions to protect edx codebase (Python, Javascript and other templating engine eg django/mako) against possible XSS attacks. Helper code include html & js escaping filters for django and mako templates. For more information, please read Preventing Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities.

Documentation

The full documentation is in the docs directory TODO: Publish to https://xss-utils.readthedocs.org.

License

The code in this repository is licensed under the AGPL 3.0 unless otherwise noted.

Please see LICENSE.txt for details.

How To Contribute

Contributions are very welcome.

Please read How To Contribute for details.

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Issue report template should be automatically applied if you are sending it from github UI as well; otherwise you can find it at ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md

Reporting Security Issues

Please do not report security issues in public. Please email [e-mail].

Getting Help

Have a question about this repository, or about Open edX in general? Please refer to this list of resources if you need any assistance.

Change Log

Unreleased

[0.8.0] - 2025-04-17

• Add support for django 5.2.

[0.7.1] - 2025-02-28

• Fix to PyPI publishing workflow.

[0.7.0] - 2025-02-28

• Drop support for Python 3.8

[0.6.0] - 2024-04-22

• Test and declare Python 3.11 and 3.12 compatibility.

[0.5.0] - 2023-08-01

• Switch from edx-sphinx-theme to sphinx-book-theme since the former is deprecated. See https://github.com/openedx/edx-sphinx-theme/issues/184 for more details.

• Added supportt for Django 4.2

[0.4.0] - 2022-01-20

Added

• Added Support for Django40

Dropped

• Dropped Django22, 30, 31 from CI

[0.3.0] - 2021-07-07

Added

• Support for django3.0, 3.1, 3.2

[0.1.0] - 2018-08-17

Added

• Utilities to enable html escaping, preventing Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks in Django templates.