From 2d01a1ba8984e0483ce6619b972832377f208a0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kevin Chung Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 10:03:09 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add HTML-5 "formaction" attribute to "defs.link_attrs" (GH-316) Resolves https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1888153 See https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28957 --- src/lxml/html/defs.py | 2 ++ src/lxml/html/tests/test_clean.py | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/lxml/html/defs.py b/src/lxml/html/defs.py index 1b3a75b36..2058ea330 100644 --- a/src/lxml/html/defs.py +++ b/src/lxml/html/defs.py @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ 'usemap', # Not standard: 'dynsrc', 'lowsrc', + # HTML5 formaction + 'formaction' ]) # Not in the HTML 4 spec: diff --git a/src/lxml/html/tests/test_clean.py b/src/lxml/html/tests/test_clean.py index 0e669f98d..45c2e83ab 100644 --- a/src/lxml/html/tests/test_clean.py +++ b/src/lxml/html/tests/test_clean.py @@ -123,6 +123,21 @@ def test_sneaky_js_in_math_style(self): b'', lxml.html.tostring(clean_html(s))) + def test_formaction_attribute_in_button_input(self): + # The formaction attribute overrides the form's action and should be + # treated as a malicious link attribute + html = ('
' + '') + expected = ('
' + '
') + cleaner = Cleaner( + forms=False, + safe_attrs_only=False, + ) + self.assertEqual( + expected, + cleaner.clean_html(html)) + def test_suite(): suite = unittest.TestSuite()