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Note: This library has known security vulnerabilities, use at your own risk!
Express with Secure Handlebars
We enhance the express-handlebars server-side view engine by leveraging the secure-handlebars for defending against Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). Hence, web applications can be automatically secured by contextual output escaping.
Immediate Benefits: Our approach outperforms the existing HTML escaping by applying precise filtering rules that are specific to different output contexts, and is thus more secure against XSS vectors while eliminating double encodings altogether.
Least Adoption Effort: The manual effort required is as easy as batch replacing express-handlebars with express-secure-handlebars (i.e., to update those require() calls as well as the dependency in your package.json). The nitty-gritties of filter choices and integrations are all automated!
Simply replace express-handlebars with the express-secure-handlebars package in all require()!
Basic Example
Based on the basic example of ExpressHandlebars, here we show an example app that can be secured only with our package.
views/profile.handlebars:
Given that there is a very typical handlebars template file written like so to incorporate user inputs.
The enhanced package can secure the web application by automatically applying context-sensitive output filters, which otherwise is still subject to XSS attacks if using the default escaping approach (e.g., when url is javascript:alert(1) or onclick=alert(1)).
Same as the Handlebars original example, this file serves as the HTML page wrapper which can be reused for the different views of the app. {{{body}}} is used as a placeholder for where the main content should be rendered.
A super simple Express app that registers the Handlebars view engine.
varexpress=require('express'),// The only difference is to replace 'express-handlebars' with our enhanced package.// exphbs = require('express-handlebars');exphbs=require('express-secure-handlebars');varapp=express(),hbs=exphbs.create({/* config */});app.engine('handlebars',hbs.engine);app.set('view engine','handlebars');app.use('/profile',function(req,res){res.render('profile',{title: 'User Profile',url: req.query.url// an untrusted user input});});app.listen(3000);
Development
Known Limitations & Issues
Please refer to the section documented in secure-handlebars.
Warnings and Workarounds
Please refer to the section documented in secure-handlebars.
How to test
Apply your changes to files in src/, and then run the tests.
npm test
License
This software is free to use under the Yahoo Inc. BSD license.
See the LICENSE file for license text and copyright information.
