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vikunja/pkg/notifications/markdown_escape.go
kolaente 0f3730d045 fix(notifications): escape markdown in user-controlled strings in email lines
Task titles, project titles, team names, doer/assignee names, and API
token titles were interpolated raw into Line(...) calls whose content is
rendered to HTML by goldmark and then sanitized with bluemonday UGCPolicy.
UGCPolicy intentionally allows safe <a href> and <img src> with
http/https URLs, so a title containing Markdown link or image syntax
would survive sanitization as a working phishing link or tracking pixel
in a legitimate Vikunja email.

Introduce notifications.EscapeMarkdown, which prefixes every CommonMark
§2.4 backslash-escapable ASCII punctuation character — including '<' so
autolinks like `<https://evil.com>` are neutralized before reaching
goldmark — with a backslash. Apply it to every user-controlled argument
of every Line(...) call in pkg/models that feeds into an i18n template,
and to the hand-built "* [title](url) (project)" Markdown link in the
overdue-tasks digest notification.

Also escape the migration error string in MigrationFailedNotification,
an additional sink not listed in the advisory (error messages can carry
user-controlled content from the external migration source).

Subject(...), Greeting(...), and CreateConversationalHeader(...) are
left unchanged: Subject is passed directly to the mail library and is
not markdown-rendered, Greeting is rendered via html/template's built-in
HTML escaping without markdown, and the conversational header is
sanitized as raw HTML by bluemonday in mail_render.go.

Fixes GHSA-45q4-x4r9-8fqj.
2026-04-09 15:44:04 +00:00

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// Vikunja is a to-do list application to facilitate your life.
// Copyright 2018-present Vikunja and contributors. All rights reserved.
//
// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
// GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
// along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
package notifications
import "strings"
// markdownSpecialChars is the full CommonMark §2.4 backslash-escapable set.
// '<' is included to neutralize autolinks (`<https://evil.com>`), which
// bluemonday's UGC policy would otherwise render as clickable <a> tags.
// '\' is handled separately first so inserted backslashes are not re-escaped.
const markdownSpecialChars = "`*_{}[]()<>#+-.!|~"
// EscapeMarkdown escapes every CommonMark-special character in s. Fixes
// GHSA-45q4-x4r9-8fqj (Markdown injection in notification emails).
func EscapeMarkdown(s string) string {
// Backslash first so inserted backslashes are not double-escaped.
s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, `\`, `\\`)
var b strings.Builder
b.Grow(len(s))
for _, r := range s {
if r < 128 && strings.ContainsRune(markdownSpecialChars, r) {
b.WriteByte('\\')
}
b.WriteRune(r)
}
return b.String()
}