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authorChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2013-03-26 17:35:55 +0100
committerChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2013-03-26 17:35:55 +0100
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Issue 17538: Document XML vulnerabilties
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@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ to be simpler than the full DOM and also significantly smaller. Users who are
not already proficient with the DOM should consider using the
:mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree` module for their XML processing instead
+
+.. warning::
+
+ The :mod:`xml.dom.minidom` module is not secure against
+ maliciously constructed data. If you need to parse untrusted or
+ unauthenticated data see :ref:`xml-vulnerabilities`.
+
+
DOM applications typically start by parsing some XML into a DOM. With
:mod:`xml.dom.minidom`, this is done through the parse functions::