Web page copied and pasted in post: Security Risk?

[bigTex]

It isn't allowed to past html code into a forum post, but I just scrolled and copied an entire web page with Firefox and then pasted it into a forum post and it showed up exactly like the original page.

Is this a security risk? I do know that the items in the page weren't set to target a blank page and they do in the post. Just curious thanks. This does not work in this forum, so if there a setting to stop that from occuring?

- bT

[Steve Machol]

What's the link to that post? The only way I can see that happening is if you've enabled HTML.

[Dennis Olson]

First of all, if you are using the WYSIWYG editor, you "get it all", as-is. If HTML is turned off, raw HTML code will not parse.

[Icheb]

"raw HTML code" will be sanitized, it's not a matter of not being parsed. Small but important difference .

[bigTex]

After further investigation, only administrators are capable of copying/pasting html pages (not code) into the WYSIWYG panel.

When registered users do this, it shows up as sanitized text.

Thanks for the input,

bT