overview: don't escape option descriptions#632
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This puts us at risk of XSS by an attacker submitting malicious option descriptions to Nixpkgs/NGIpkgs. At the same time the xml escaping fucks up some description texts, as what we'd actually need is Markdown escaping.
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This puts us at risk of XSS by an attacker submitting malicious option descriptions to Nixpkgs/NGIpkgs. At the same time the xml escaping fucks up some description texts, as what we'd actually need is Markdown escaping.
I'd argue that the former is a managable risk, while the latter is unaccaptable.
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