Release Version 1.7.7

This is a minor bug fix release to address 2 issues:

• Improves/fixes Closing tags behavior - Per #492
• Adds support for inline style css functions - Per: #511

In addition, a number of libraries and plugins were upgraded.

Release Version 1.7.6

This is a minor bug fix release to address issue #453.

In addition, a number of libraries and plugins were upgraded.

Release version 1.7.5

This release addresses the vulnerability documented in GHSA-2mrq-w8pv-5pvq. AntiSamy versions prior to v1.7.5 are subject to mutation XSS (mXSS) vulnerability when preserving comments. - https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2024-23635.

In addition, a number of libraries and plugins were upgraded.

Note: The upgrade in the HTML parser may alter outputs compared to 1.7.4 and before. This may impact regression tests that involve AntiSamy if they are too strict when comparing a resulting output with the expected one.

Release version 1.7.4

This release addresses the vulnerability documented in CVE-2023-43643. AntiSamy versions prior to v1.7.4 are subject to mutation XSS (mXSS) vulnerability when preserving comments. - https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2023-43643.

In addition, a number of libraries and plugins were upgraded, including one with a known vulnerability. Specifically, AntiSamy 1.7.4 upgraded to batik-css v1.17 because batik-css:1.16 is subject to https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2022-44729.

Note: The upgrade in the HTML parser may alter outputs compared to 1.7.3 and before. This may impact in regression tests that involve AntiSamy if they are too strict when comparing a resulting output with the expected one.

Release version 1.7.3

This release simply upgrades a number of dependencies, including one with a known CVE. Versions of org.htmlunit:neko-htmlunit prior to 3.0.0 used by AntiSamy 1.7.2 is subject to CVE-2023-26119.

Release version 1.7.2

This release simply upgrades a number of dependencies, including one with known CVEs. The previous version of batik-css (1.14) used by AntiSamy 1.7.1 has two CVEs: CVE-2022-42890, CVE-2022-41704.

Release version 1.7.1

This release addresses the following issues:

1. Documentation Improvements: Clarifying that relying on getErrorMessages() or getNumberOfErrors() is UNSAFE.

There has been much confusion about the getErrorMessages() method. The getErrorMessages() method (nor getNumberOfErrors()) does not subtly answer the question "is this safe input?" in the affirmative if it returns an empty list. You must always use the sanitized input and there is no way to be sure the input passed in had no attacks.

We had already added a note about this in the README for AntiSamy 1.7.0, but we have now added similar information to the Javadoc for all the related methods. That way if a developer is reading the Javadoc, they are more likely to notice that these methods are purely informational, and CANNOT be relied on for security. Only CleanResults.getCleanHTML() can be relied on to provide safe/clean HTML to send back to the user's browser.

2. Announcing plan to deprecate support for external stylesheets

The AntiSamy team has decided that supporting the ability to allow embedded remote CSS is dangerous and so we are deprecating this feature and it will be removed in a future release. It is expected that there are very few, if any, users of this feature.

We have added a log WARNing if this feature is invoked. If you are using this API, please disable/remove this feature by switching to the primary CssScanner() constructor that does not enable this feature, or dropping direct use of this constructor because, by default, this feature it not enabled.

3. Minor Bug #200: AntiSamy converting single quotes to double quotes for font-family which is causing issue while rendering

This issue was fixed in this release. See the issue ticket for more details.

Release version 1.7.0

This release eliminates everything deprecated in the 1.6.8 release, and includes a few minor plugin and library updates, but otherwise no other changes. The details of the things removed are documented in the README and issue #195. The README describes the new APIs that replace any deprecated APIs that were removed. AntiSamy 1.7.0 requires Java 8+.

Release version 1.6.8

This release simply upgrades net.sourceforge.htmlunit:neko-htmlunit to version 2.61.0 to eliminate a DOS vulnerability in that library discovered in version 2.60.0 and prior (https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2022-29546).

Release version 1.6.7

This release addresses a minor issue in the security fixes implemented in 1.6.6. While those fixes addressed most of the security concerns in the security issue reported to us by the researcher, our fix had a minor bug that allowed something to sneak through. This release fixes that, and includes the changes from 1.6.6.1 that compile AntiSamy.jar to Java 7 bytecode.

It specifically addresses CVE-2022-29577, which is the complete fix to: CVE-2022-28367: AntiSamy before 1.6.6 allows XSS via HTML tag smuggling on STYLE content. - https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2022-29577.