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showdown-xss-filter
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Showdown extension to filter XSS, using leizongmin/js-xss.
<script src="/path/to/showdown/src/showdown.js"></script>
<script src="/path/to/xss/dist/xss.min.js"></script>
<script src="/path/to/showdown-xss-filter.js"></script>
var converter = new showdown.Converter({ extensions: ['xssfilter'] })
var text = "<script>alert('xss!')</script>";
console.log(converter.makeHtml(text));
Note: be sure to include the dependency on leizongmin/js-xss before this extension.
var showdown = require('showdown');
var xssFilter = require('showdown-xss-filter');
var converter = new showdown.Converter({extensions: [xssFilter]});
var text = "<script>alert('xss!')</script>";
console.log(converter.makeHtml(text));
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XSS filter extension for showdown
The npm package showdown-xss-filter receives a total of 11,866 weekly downloads. As such, showdown-xss-filter popularity was classified as popular.
We found that showdown-xss-filter demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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