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11 post-merge residual alerts from PRs #57 and #60 closed.

Code fixes (3 alerts)

Sink-line suppressions (6 alerts — false positives)

GHAS does not model the in-repo percSafeUrl() helper as a sanitizer barrier, so PR #60's .attr('href', percSafeUrl(href)) wrappers get re-flagged. Adding sink-line // codeql[js/xss-through-dom] markers with consistent justification text references the runtime defense.

  • PercArchiveListView.js:137, 197, 285 (#709, #710, #711)
  • PercCategoryListView.js:198 (#712)
  • PercRegistrationView.js:82, 270 (#713, #714)

Validation

  • python3 scripts/verify-suppressions.py — PASS
  • node --check on each modified file — syntax OK
  • python3 scripts/verify-triage-inventory.py — PASS

JDK 1.8.0 compatible. No CHANGELOG.md entry per AGENTS.md.

11 post-merge residual alerts from PRs #57 and #60 closed:

Code fixes (3 alerts):
- PercBlogPostView.js (#707, #708): added percSafeUrl() helper (mirror of
  PercArchiveListView.js) and wrapped both .attr(href) calls. The
  encodeURIComponent call was already in place from PR #60; the
  scheme-block is the missing defense.
- PercTagListView.js (#715): same pattern as BlogPost — added
  percSafeUrl() helper, wrapped the .attr(href) call at line 122 (was 115
  in GHAS, +7 lines from the added helper).
- cui/widgets/app/app.viewmodel.js (#705, #706): the /g flag added in
  PR #57 fixed the 'first occurrence' CodeQL alert but surfaced a new
  'does not escape backslash' alert. Tightened the regex to /[\[\]\]/g
  so escaping covers [, ], and \ in one global replace.

Sink-line suppressions (6 alerts — false positives, PR #60 already added
the percSafeUrl() wrapper but GHAS does not model the in-repo helper as
a sanitizer barrier):
- PercArchiveListView.js:137, 197, 285 (#709, #710, #711)
- PercCategoryListView.js:198 (#712)
- PercRegistrationView.js:82, 270 (#713, #714)

Each // codeql[js/xss-through-dom] anchor carries the same justification
text referencing the in-repo percSafeUrl() runtime defense; same
re-review date 2027-07-31.

Verification:
  - python3 scripts/verify-suppressions.py          PASS
  - node --check on each modified file              syntax OK
  - python3 scripts/verify-triage-inventory.py      PASS

JDK 1.8.0 compatible. No CHANGELOG.md entry per AGENTS.md.
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var encodedQuery = "&query=" + encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(jsonQuery));
$(this).attr("href", blogIndexPage + "?filter="+ encodeURIComponent(tag) + encodedQuery);
// codeql[js/xss-through-dom] justification: percSafeUrl() helper blocks javascript:/vbscript:/data: schemes at this href sink; GHAS does not model the in-repo helper as a sanitizer barrier; re-review by 2027-07-31
$(this).attr("href", percSafeUrl(blogIndexPage + "?filter="+ encodeURIComponent(tag) + encodedQuery));
var encodedQuery = "&query=" + encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(jsonQuery));
$(this).attr("href", blogIndexPage + "?filter="+ encodeURIComponent(category) + encodedQuery);
// codeql[js/xss-through-dom] justification: percSafeUrl() helper blocks javascript:/vbscript:/data: schemes at this href sink; GHAS does not model the in-repo helper as a sanitizer barrier; re-review by 2027-07-31
$(this).attr("href", percSafeUrl(blogIndexPage + "?filter="+ encodeURIComponent(category) + encodedQuery));
var encodedQuery = "&query=" + encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(query));
newListElem.find("a").attr("href", baseURL + pageResult + "?filter="+encodeURIComponent(tagEntry.tagName) + encodedQuery).text(linkText);
// codeql[js/xss-through-dom] justification: percSafeUrl() helper blocks javascript:/vbscript:/data: schemes at this href sink; GHAS does not model the in-repo helper as a sanitizer barrier; re-review by 2027-07-31
newListElem.find("a").attr("href", percSafeUrl(baseURL + pageResult + "?filter="+encodeURIComponent(tagEntry.tagName) + encodedQuery)).text(linkText);
natechadwick-intsof added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
…ons.md (#63)

After PR #62 merged, a new CodeQL scan surfaced 9 js/xss-through-dom
alerts in delivery/common/js/views/. All 9 sites already have
// codeql[js/xss-through-dom] sink-line markers in the source from
PR #60 and PR #62 (the markers reference the in-repo percSafeUrl() /
encodeURIComponent runtime defenses that GHAS does not model as a
sanitizer barrier).

suppressions.md gets one row per alert so verify-suppressions.py
recognizes the eventual dismissal. clusters.md row updated to note
the 9 alerts are sink-line suppressed and awaiting the next scan.

No source changes; this is a documentation-only pass to assign the
proper disposition (false-positive) to each row before the next
GHAS re-scan dismisses them.

Verification:
  - python3 scripts/verify-suppressions.py            PASS
  - python3 scripts/verify-triage-inventory.py        PASS (9 of 9)
  - python3 scripts/verify-valid-fixes.py             PASS
  - node --check on every affected delivery view       syntax OK

JDK 1.8.0 compatible. No CHANGELOG.md entry per AGENTS.md.
natechadwick-intsof added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
9 open js/xss-through-dom alerts on delivery/common/js/views/Perc*View.js
href / window.location sinks closed by gating the sink behind an
inline String.prototype.indexOf guard on the dangerous URL schemes.

PRs #60 and #62 added an in-repo percSafeUrl() helper, but
.github/workflows/codeql.yml explicitly notes that GHA rejects local
model-pack paths in the workflow packs: input, so GHAS does not
model the in-repo helper as a sanitizer barrier. PR #62 acknowledged
this and shipped sink-line // codeql[rule-id] suppressions; 9 alerts
(#709-#714, #716-#718) stayed open after the merge.

This PR takes a different approach: each sink is now placed inside
the safe branch of an if-statement that checks the href value for
the dangerous schemes (javascript:, vbscript:, data:) using
String.prototype.indexOf === -1 — the predicate CodeQL's
js/xss-through-dom library recognizes as a URL-scheme sanitizer
guard. In the safe branch the sink receives the computed href; in
the dangerous branch the sink receives "#" (or "/" for
window.location, matching the original helper's behavior).

An earlier iteration of this PR used an if-reassign pattern with a
regex test (/^\\s*(?:javascript|vbscript|data)\\s*:/i); that
pattern was not recognized by GHAS as a sanitizer — the CodeQL
check on the first push still flagged all 9 sinks. The
String.prototype.indexOf guard was the smallest change that
CodeQL's URL sanitizer library actually models.

Changes:
- delivery/common/js/views/PercBlogPostView.js: drop percSafeUrl
  helper; replace the regex check with a String.indexOf guard on
  tagHref (#716) and categoryHref (#717).
- delivery/common/js/views/PercArchiveListView.js: drop percSafeUrl
  helper; replace with String.indexOf guard on the hierarchical
  year href (#709), hierarchical month href (#710), and flat-list
  month href (#711).
- delivery/common/js/views/PercCategoryListView.js: drop percSafeUrl
  helper; replace with String.indexOf guard on the parseNode href
  (#712).
- delivery/common/js/views/PercRegistrationView.js: drop percSafeUrl
  helper; replace with String.indexOf guard on both window.location
  sinks (confirmation-page redirect #714, rvkey redirect #713);
  fallback to "/" since the original helper returned that for
  invalid schemes.
- delivery/common/js/views/PercTagListView.js: drop percSafeUrl
  helper; replace with String.indexOf guard on the tag href (#718).
- docs/ai-generated/tasks/8.1.x-codeql-baseline/suppressions.md:
  drop the 9 js/xss-through-dom rows for the alerts being fixed
  (#709-#714, #716-#718) plus 3 stale rows for the alerts PR #62
  already closed (#707, #708, #715). The corresponding
  // codeql[js/xss-through-dom] sink-line markers are gone from the
  source, so the verify-suppressions.py greps would otherwise fail.
- docs/ai-generated/tasks/8.1.x-codeql-baseline/triage.md: keep the
  9 rows (alerts are still open in alerts.md until the next GHAS
  scan dismisses them) but update notes to describe the actual code
  fix and the post-fix line numbers; row count still matches
  alerts.md so verify-triage-inventory.py stays green.
- docs/ai-generated/tasks/8.1.x-codeql-baseline/clusters.md:
  cluster row updated to point at this PR and note the inlined
  sanitizer pattern; per-alert line numbers refreshed.

Verification:
  - node --check on each modified file                syntax OK
  - python3 scripts/verify-suppressions.py            PASS
  - python3 scripts/verify-triage-inventory.py        PASS (9 == 9)
  - python3 scripts/verify-valid-fixes.py             PASS

JDK 1.8.0 compatible (JS only). No CHANGELOG.md entry per AGENTS.md.

> Co-Authored by MiniMax Code (MiniMax-M3) with agent mavis.
natechadwick-intsof added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
9 open js/xss-through-dom alerts on delivery/common/js/views/Perc*View.js
href / window.location sinks closed by routing the value through the
URL constructor before the sink.

PRs #60 and #62 added an in-repo percSafeUrl() helper, but
.github/workflows/codeql.yml explicitly notes that GHA rejects local
model-pack paths in the workflow packs: input, so GHAS does not model
the in-repo helper as a sanitizer barrier. Two earlier iterations of
this PR tried sanitizers CodeQL still didn't recognize:

  1. inline /^\\s*(?:javascript|vbscript|data)\\s*:/i regex test
     on the computed href (if-reassign pattern). CodeQL's xss-through-dom
     library doesn't model phi-node reassignment from a RegExpTest as
     a barrier — the first CodeQL push still flagged all 9 sinks.
  2. inline String.prototype.indexOf === -1 guard placed inside the
     if-true branch (safer by the JS semantics, still not recognized).
     CodeQL's sanitizer library tracks String.prototype.startsWith and
     URL-constructor patterns but the simple indexOf === -1 against a
     literal scheme wasn't on the recognized list for this rule in this
     CodeQL version — 9 sinks still flagged.

This PR uses the URL constructor pattern CodeQL's xss-through-dom
library explicitly recognizes:

  var safeUrl;
  try { safeUrl = new URL(href, baseURL); } catch (e) { safeUrl = null; }
  if (safeUrl
      && safeUrl.protocol !== "javascript:"
      && safeUrl.protocol !== "vbscript:"
      && safeUrl.protocol !== "data:") {
      sink(safeUrl.href);
  } else {
      sink("#");
  }

After applying this to a single sink (PercTagListView.js) the CodeQL
check dropped from 9 alerts to 8, confirming the pattern is recognized.
The remaining 8 sinks have been migrated to the same pattern in this
push. The fallback is "/" for the two window.location sinks in
PercRegistrationView.js to match the original helper's behavior;
"#" for the href sinks.

Changes:
- delivery/common/js/views/PercBlogPostView.js: drop percSafeUrl
  helper; URL constructor on tagHref (#716) and categoryHref (#717).
- delivery/common/js/views/PercArchiveListView.js: drop percSafeUrl
  helper; URL constructor on the hierarchical year href (#709),
  hierarchical month href (#710), and flat-list month href (#711).
- delivery/common/js/views/PercCategoryListView.js: drop percSafeUrl
  helper; URL constructor on the parseNode href (#712).
- delivery/common/js/views/PercRegistrationView.js: drop percSafeUrl
  helper; URL constructor on both window.location sinks
  (confirmation-page redirect #714, rvkey redirect #713); fallback
  to "/" since the original helper returned that for invalid schemes.
- delivery/common/js/views/PercTagListView.js: drop percSafeUrl
  helper; URL constructor on the tag href (#718).
- docs/ai-generated/tasks/8.1.x-codeql-baseline/suppressions.md:
  drop the 9 js/xss-through-dom rows for the alerts being fixed
  (#709-#714, #716-#718) plus 3 stale rows for the alerts PR #62
  already closed (#707, #708, #715). The corresponding
  // codeql[js/xss-through-dom] sink-line markers are gone from the
  source, so the verify-suppressions.py greps would otherwise fail.
- docs/ai-generated/tasks/8.1.x-codeql-baseline/triage.md: keep the
  9 rows (alerts are still open in alerts.md until the next GHAS
  scan dismisses them) but update notes to describe the actual code
  fix and the post-fix line numbers; row count still matches
  alerts.md so verify-triage-inventory.py stays green.
- docs/ai-generated/tasks/8.1.x-codeql-baseline/clusters.md:
  cluster row updated to point at this PR and note the inlined
  sanitizer pattern; per-alert line numbers refreshed.

Verification:
  - node --check on each modified file                syntax OK
  - python3 scripts/verify-suppressions.py            PASS
  - python3 scripts/verify-triage-inventory.py        PASS (9 == 9)
  - python3 scripts/verify-valid-fixes.py             PASS
  - CodeQL check (single-sink test)                   9 -> 8 alerts

JDK 1.8.0 compatible (JS only). No CHANGELOG.md entry per AGENTS.md.

> Co-Authored by MiniMax Code (MiniMax-M3) with agent mavis.
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