Harden message content filtering + bump thruster to 0.1.23 (#237)

* Bump thruster 0.1.15 → 0.1.23

* Scrub disallowed attributes on allowed tags in message rendering

SanitizeTags removes disallowed tags from message presentation, but
attributes on the tags it allows passed through untouched. Extend the
content-filter chain with a SanitizeAttributes filter that runs Rails'
safe-list sanitizer over the remaining markup, stripping event-handler
attributes and unsafe URI schemes as defense-in-depth alongside the
existing Content-Security-Policy.

Running it after SanitizeTags with the same allowed-tags list makes the
sanitizer's tag pass a no-op, preserving SanitizeTags' remove-not-unwrap
semantics while scrubbing attributes. The attribute allowlist is the
standard ActionText set (which keeps attachments intact) plus class,
which presentation styling relies on.
This commit is contained in:
Jeremy Daer
2026-08-10 15:55:02 -07:00
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parent 2aa4141077
commit d3f22d78e1
6 changed files with 150 additions and 6 deletions
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@@ -61,6 +61,75 @@ class ContentFiltersTest < ActionView::TestCase
assert_equal "Hello World", filtered.to_html
end
test "message with a link using an unsafe URI scheme" do
message = Message.create! room: rooms(:pets), body: '<div><a href="javascript:alert(1)">x</a></div>', client_message_id: "0015", creator: users(:jason)
filtered = ContentFilters::TextMessagePresentationFilters.apply(message.body.body)
assert_no_match /javascript:/, filtered.to_html
assert_match /<a>x<\/a>/, filtered.to_html
end
test "message with an event handler attribute on an allowed tag" do
message = Message.create! room: rooms(:pets), body: '<div><a href="/x" onmouseover="alert(1)">x</a> <span onclick="alert(2)">y</span></div>', client_message_id: "0015", creator: users(:jason)
filtered = ContentFilters::TextMessagePresentationFilters.apply(message.body.body)
assert_no_match /onmouseover/, filtered.to_html
assert_no_match /onclick/, filtered.to_html
assert_match /<a href="\/x">x<\/a>/, filtered.to_html
assert_match /<span>y<\/span>/, filtered.to_html
end
test "message with a data URI link" do
message = Message.create! room: rooms(:pets), body: '<div><a href="data:text/html,pwned">x</a></div>', client_message_id: "0015", creator: users(:jason)
filtered = ContentFilters::TextMessagePresentationFilters.apply(message.body.body)
assert_no_match /data:/, filtered.to_html
assert_match /<a>x<\/a>/, filtered.to_html
end
test "message with a safe link and formatting is preserved" do
body = '<div><a href="https://example.com">example</a> <strong>bold</strong> <code>code</code><ul><li>one</li><li>two</li></ul></div>'
message = Message.create! room: rooms(:pets), body: body, client_message_id: "0015", creator: users(:jason)
filtered = ContentFilters::TextMessagePresentationFilters.apply(message.body.body)
assert_match /<a href="https:\/\/example\.com">example<\/a>/, filtered.to_html
assert_match /<strong>bold<\/strong>/, filtered.to_html
assert_match /<code>code<\/code>/, filtered.to_html
assert_match /<ul>\s*<li>one<\/li>\s*<li>two<\/li>\s*<\/ul>/, filtered.to_html
end
test "SanitizeAttributes uses an isolated sanitizer rather than the shared ActionText instance" do
filter = ContentFilters::SanitizeAttributes.new(ActionText::Content.new("<div>x</div>"))
isolated = filter.send(:sanitizer)
assert_not_same ActionText::ContentHelper.sanitizer, isolated,
"must not reuse the process-wide ActionText sanitizer, whose permit scrubber is mutated per call"
assert_not_same isolated, filter.send(:sanitizer),
"each call must build a fresh sanitizer so concurrent requests never share scrubber state"
assert_kind_of ActionText::ContentHelper.sanitizer.class, isolated
end
test "SanitizeAttributes neutralizes unsafe input and preserves benign content on its isolated sanitizer" do
body = <<~HTML.squish
<div><a href="javascript:alert(1)" onclick="x()">link</a>
<a href="data:text/html,pwned">data</a>
<span class="cf-twitter-avatar" onmouseover="y()">avatar</span>
<img src="https://evil.example/x.svg"> Hey #{mention_attachment_for(:david)}</div>
HTML
message = Message.create! room: rooms(:pets), body: body, client_message_id: "0015", creator: users(:jason)
filtered = ContentFilters::SanitizeAttributes.apply(message.body.body).to_html
assert_no_match /javascript:/, filtered
assert_no_match /data:text\/html/, filtered
assert_no_match /onclick/, filtered
assert_no_match /onmouseover/, filtered
assert_no_match /evil\.example/, filtered
assert_match /<span class="cf-twitter-avatar">avatar<\/span>/, filtered
assert_match />link</, filtered
assert_match /<action-text-attachment sgid="#{users(:david).attachable_sgid}"/, filtered
end
test "message with a mention attachment" do
message = Message.create! room: rooms(:pets), body: "<div>Hey #{mention_attachment_for(:david)}</div>", creator: users(:jason)
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@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
require "test_helper"
class MessagesHelperTest < ActionView::TestCase
test "message_presentation neutralizes unsafe URI schemes in links" do
message = Message.create! room: rooms(:pets), body: '<div><a href="javascript:alert(1)">x</a></div>', client_message_id: "0015", creator: users(:jason)
presentation = view.message_presentation(message)
assert_no_match /javascript:/, presentation
assert_match /<a>x<\/a>/, presentation
end
test "message_presentation strips event handler attributes from allowed tags" do
message = Message.create! room: rooms(:pets), body: '<div><a href="/x" onmouseover="alert(1)">x</a></div>', client_message_id: "0015", creator: users(:jason)
presentation = view.message_presentation(message)
assert_no_match /onmouseover/, presentation
assert_match /<a href="\/x">x<\/a>/, presentation
end
test "message_presentation preserves safe links and formatting" do
message = Message.create! room: rooms(:pets), body: '<div><a href="https://example.com">example</a> <strong>bold</strong></div>', client_message_id: "0015", creator: users(:jason)
presentation = view.message_presentation(message)
assert_match /<a href="https:\/\/example\.com"[^>]*>example<\/a>/, presentation
assert_match /<strong>bold<\/strong>/, presentation
end
end