Title: [Plugin: Wiki] Possible security issue?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Wiki] Possible security issue?

 *  Resolved [booruguru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/booruguru/)
 * (@booruguru)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wiki-possible-security-issue/)
 * I’ve been looking at this Wiki plugin and I really like the simplicity of it.
   However, the Wiki HTML/WYSIWYG editor is basically the default WordPress HTML/
   WYSIWYG editor… which means there’s no restriction on the kind of code that can
   be inserted (like a javascript) or am I missing something? (I now understand 
   why wikis have their own markup language, as cumbersome as it may be.)
 * Can anyone suggest a way to resolve this issue? A hack or plugin that would do
   the trick?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-wiki-plugin/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-wiki-plugin/)

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 *  Thread Starter [booruguru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/booruguru/)
 * (@booruguru)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wiki-possible-security-issue/#post-2584914)
 * My bad. I just realized that WordPress restricts HTML tags on lower level users.

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wiki-possible-security-issue/#post-2584914)
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