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🎯 What: This PR fixes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in extension/sidepanel/sidepanel.js where dynamically generated audit and dossier HTML is inserted via innerHTML without proper, robust sanitization.
⚠️ Risk: The previous reliance on a simple escapeHtml function did not adequately protect against all XSS vectors, leaving the extension vulnerable if malicious structured data were rendered, leading to execution of untrusted scripts in the extension context.
🛡️ Solution: Integrated DOMPurify 3.0.6 (served locally as purify.min.js) and wrapped all .innerHTML assignments with DOMPurify.sanitize(). This provides a secure and robust method for rendering safe HTML while removing any malicious payload vectors. Test assertions were also updated to ensure purify.min.js remains present in the extension bundle.


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Sanitize HTML before assigning to innerHTML.
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Two problems. First, it does not work: the PR vendors purify.min.js, but index.html never loads it (the only change there removes a blank line), so DOMPurify is undefined and every render throws. CI passed only because nothing on main executed the side panel; #109's harness does. Second, the output it sanitizes is already escaped by renderer-helper.js, so there is no vulnerability for it to fix. Duplicate of #104.

Closing as part of triaging the open PRs against #109, which restructures the extension (it removes the .cjs twins, renames test/test-*.js to .mjs, and rewrites the crawler and side panel). It is up to date with main as of ee79db2.

@savvides savvides closed this Sep 24, 2026
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Two problems. First, it does not work: the PR vendors purify.min.js, but index.html never loads it (the only change there removes a blank line), so DOMPurify is undefined and every render throws. CI passed only because nothing on main executed the side panel; #109's harness does. Second, the output it sanitizes is already escaped by renderer-helper.js, so there is no vulnerability for it to fix. Duplicate of #104.

Closing as part of triaging the open PRs against #109, which restructures the extension (it removes the .cjs twins, renames test/test-*.js to .mjs, and rewrites the crawler and side panel). It is up to date with main as of ee79db2.

Understood. Acknowledging that this work is now obsolete and stopping work on this task.

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