From 68d5958fe78b5e8ffee9cc5e6e00376d1735cd83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Avila <danny@librechat.ai>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2026 19:37:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=F0=9F=93=84=20fix:=20Harden=20Configured=20Ric?=
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---
 client/src/components/Banners/Banner.tsx      |  30 ++--
 .../components/Chat/Input/MCPConfigDialog.tsx |  32 ++--
 .../components/MCP/CustomUserVarsSection.tsx  |  42 ++---
 .../MCPServerDialog/sections/TrustSection.tsx |  34 ++--
 .../sections/__tests__/TrustSection.spec.tsx  | 166 ++++++++++++++++++
 client/src/utils/__tests__/configHtml.test.ts |  46 +++++
 client/src/utils/configHtml.ts                |  45 +++++
 client/src/utils/index.ts                     |   1 +
 8 files changed, 311 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 client/src/components/SidePanel/MCPBuilder/MCPServerDialog/sections/__tests__/TrustSection.spec.tsx
 create mode 100644 client/src/utils/__tests__/configHtml.test.ts
 create mode 100644 client/src/utils/configHtml.ts

diff --git a/client/src/components/Banners/Banner.tsx b/client/src/components/Banners/Banner.tsx
index a1e9056c07..72c1891683 100644
--- a/client/src/components/Banners/Banner.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/Banners/Banner.tsx
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
-import DOMPurify from 'dompurify';
 import { XIcon } from 'lucide-react';
 import { useRecoilState } from 'recoil';
 import { Button, cn } from '@librechat/client';
 import { useEffect, useMemo, useRef } from 'react';
+import {
+  CONFIG_HTML_TEXT_TAGS,
+  CONFIG_HTML_CLASS_ATTR,
+  createConfigHtmlSanitizer,
+} from '~/utils/configHtml';
 import { useGetBannerQuery } from '~/data-provider';
 import store from '~/store';
 
@@ -10,25 +14,21 @@ export const Banner = ({ onHeightChange }: { onHeightChange?: (height: number) =
   const { data: banner } = useGetBannerQuery();
   const [hideBannerHint, setHideBannerHint] = useRecoilState<string[]>(store.hideBannerHint);
   const bannerRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
+  const sanitize = useMemo(
+    () =>
+      createConfigHtmlSanitizer({
+        allowedTags: CONFIG_HTML_TEXT_TAGS,
+        allowedAttr: CONFIG_HTML_CLASS_ATTR,
+      }),
+    [],
+  );
 
   const sanitizedMessage = useMemo(() => {
     if (!banner?.message) {
       return '';
     }
-    const sanitizer = DOMPurify();
-    sanitizer.addHook('afterSanitizeAttributes', (node) => {
-      if (node.tagName === 'A') {
-        node.setAttribute('target', '_blank');
-        node.setAttribute('rel', 'noopener noreferrer');
-      }
-    });
-    return sanitizer.sanitize(banner.message, {
-      ALLOWED_TAGS: ['a', 'strong', 'b', 'em', 'i', 'br', 'code', 'span'],
-      ALLOWED_ATTR: ['href', 'class', 'target', 'rel'],
-      ALLOW_DATA_ATTR: false,
-      ALLOW_ARIA_ATTR: false,
-    });
-  }, [banner?.message]);
+    return sanitize(banner.message);
+  }, [banner?.message, sanitize]);
 
   useEffect(() => {
     if (onHeightChange && bannerRef.current) {
diff --git a/client/src/components/Chat/Input/MCPConfigDialog.tsx b/client/src/components/Chat/Input/MCPConfigDialog.tsx
index a4cb03251e..206c29b692 100644
--- a/client/src/components/Chat/Input/MCPConfigDialog.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/Chat/Input/MCPConfigDialog.tsx
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
-import DOMPurify from 'dompurify';
 import React, { useEffect, useMemo } from 'react';
 import { useForm, Controller } from 'react-hook-form';
 import { Button, Input, Label, OGDialog, OGDialogTemplate } from '@librechat/client';
 import type { ConfigFieldDetail } from '~/common';
+import {
+  CONFIG_HTML_BLOCK_TAGS,
+  CONFIG_HTML_CLASS_ATTR,
+  createConfigHtmlSanitizer,
+} from '~/utils/configHtml';
 import { useLocalize } from '~/hooks';
 
 interface MCPConfigDialogProps {
@@ -36,24 +40,14 @@ export default function MCPConfigDialog({
     defaultValues: initialValues,
   });
 
-  const sanitizer = useMemo(() => {
-    const instance = DOMPurify();
-    instance.addHook('afterSanitizeAttributes', (node) => {
-      if (node.tagName === 'A') {
-        node.setAttribute('target', '_blank');
-        node.setAttribute('rel', 'noopener noreferrer');
-      }
-    });
-    return instance;
-  }, []);
-
-  const sanitize = (html: string) =>
-    sanitizer.sanitize(html, {
-      ALLOWED_TAGS: ['a', 'strong', 'b', 'em', 'i', 'br', 'code', 'span', 'p'],
-      ALLOWED_ATTR: ['href', 'class', 'target', 'rel'],
-      ALLOW_DATA_ATTR: false,
-      ALLOW_ARIA_ATTR: false,
-    });
+  const sanitize = useMemo(
+    () =>
+      createConfigHtmlSanitizer({
+        allowedTags: CONFIG_HTML_BLOCK_TAGS,
+        allowedAttr: CONFIG_HTML_CLASS_ATTR,
+      }),
+    [],
+  );
 
   useEffect(() => {
     if (isOpen) {
diff --git a/client/src/components/MCP/CustomUserVarsSection.tsx b/client/src/components/MCP/CustomUserVarsSection.tsx
index a986a2786f..83dcb5f482 100644
--- a/client/src/components/MCP/CustomUserVarsSection.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/MCP/CustomUserVarsSection.tsx
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 import React, { useMemo } from 'react';
-import DOMPurify from 'dompurify';
 import { useForm, Controller } from 'react-hook-form';
 import { Input, Label, Button } from '@librechat/client';
 import { useMCPAuthValuesQuery } from '~/data-provider/Tools/queries';
+import {
+  CONFIG_HTML_INLINE_TAGS,
+  CONFIG_HTML_CLASS_ATTR,
+  createConfigHtmlSanitizer,
+} from '~/utils/configHtml';
 import { useLocalize } from '~/hooks';
 
 export interface CustomUserVarConfig {
@@ -29,34 +33,18 @@ interface AuthFieldProps {
 function AuthField({ name, config, hasValue, control, errors, autoFocus }: AuthFieldProps) {
   const localize = useLocalize();
   const statusText = hasValue ? localize('com_ui_set') : localize('com_ui_unset');
-
-  const sanitizer = useMemo(() => {
-    const instance = DOMPurify();
-    instance.addHook('afterSanitizeAttributes', (node) => {
-      if (node.tagName && node.tagName === 'A') {
-        node.setAttribute('target', '_blank');
-        node.setAttribute('rel', 'noopener noreferrer');
-      }
-    });
-    return instance;
-  }, []);
+  const sanitize = useMemo(
+    () =>
+      createConfigHtmlSanitizer({
+        allowedTags: CONFIG_HTML_INLINE_TAGS,
+        allowedAttr: CONFIG_HTML_CLASS_ATTR,
+      }),
+    [],
+  );
 
   const sanitizedDescription = useMemo(() => {
-    if (!config.description) {
-      return '';
-    }
-    try {
-      return sanitizer.sanitize(config.description, {
-        ALLOWED_TAGS: ['a', 'strong', 'b', 'em', 'i', 'br', 'code'],
-        ALLOWED_ATTR: ['href', 'class', 'target', 'rel'],
-        ALLOW_DATA_ATTR: false,
-        ALLOW_ARIA_ATTR: false,
-      });
-    } catch (error) {
-      console.error('Sanitization failed', error);
-      return config.description;
-    }
-  }, [config.description, sanitizer]);
+    return sanitize(config.description);
+  }, [config.description, sanitize]);
 
   return (
     <div className="space-y-2">
diff --git a/client/src/components/SidePanel/MCPBuilder/MCPServerDialog/sections/TrustSection.tsx b/client/src/components/SidePanel/MCPBuilder/MCPServerDialog/sections/TrustSection.tsx
index 36d8d73a49..7ac9d3a523 100644
--- a/client/src/components/SidePanel/MCPBuilder/MCPServerDialog/sections/TrustSection.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/SidePanel/MCPBuilder/MCPServerDialog/sections/TrustSection.tsx
@@ -1,17 +1,25 @@
+import { useMemo } from 'react';
 import { useFormContext, Controller } from 'react-hook-form';
 import { Checkbox, Label } from '@librechat/client';
 import { useLocalize, useLocalizedConfig } from '~/hooks';
 import { useGetStartupConfig } from '~/data-provider';
+import { createConfigHtmlSanitizer } from '~/utils/configHtml';
 import type { MCPServerFormData } from '../hooks/useMCPServerForm';
 
 export default function TrustSection() {
   const localize = useLocalize();
   const { data: startupConfig } = useGetStartupConfig();
   const getLocalizedValue = useLocalizedConfig();
+  const sanitize = useMemo(() => createConfigHtmlSanitizer(), []);
   const {
     control,
     formState: { errors },
   } = useFormContext<MCPServerFormData>();
+  const trustCheckbox = startupConfig?.interface?.mcpServers?.trustCheckbox;
+  const labelHTML = sanitize(getLocalizedValue(trustCheckbox?.label, localize('com_ui_trust_app')));
+  const subLabelHTML = sanitize(
+    getLocalizedValue(trustCheckbox?.subLabel, localize('com_agents_mcp_trust_subtext')),
+  );
 
   return (
     <div className="rounded-lg border border-border-light bg-surface-secondary p-2">
@@ -37,35 +45,13 @@ export default function TrustSection() {
         />
         <Label htmlFor="trust" className="flex cursor-pointer flex-col gap-0.5 text-sm">
           <span id="trust-label" className="font-medium text-text-primary">
-            {startupConfig?.interface?.mcpServers?.trustCheckbox?.label ? (
-              <span
-                dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
-                  __html: getLocalizedValue(
-                    startupConfig.interface.mcpServers.trustCheckbox.label,
-                    localize('com_ui_trust_app'),
-                  ),
-                }}
-              />
-            ) : (
-              localize('com_ui_trust_app')
-            )}{' '}
+            <span dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: labelHTML }} />{' '}
             <span aria-hidden="true" className="text-text-secondary">
               *
             </span>
           </span>
           <span id="trust-description" className="text-xs font-normal text-text-secondary">
-            {startupConfig?.interface?.mcpServers?.trustCheckbox?.subLabel ? (
-              <span
-                dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
-                  __html: getLocalizedValue(
-                    startupConfig.interface.mcpServers.trustCheckbox.subLabel,
-                    localize('com_agents_mcp_trust_subtext'),
-                  ),
-                }}
-              />
-            ) : (
-              localize('com_agents_mcp_trust_subtext')
-            )}
+            <span dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: subLabelHTML }} />
           </span>
         </Label>
       </div>
diff --git a/client/src/components/SidePanel/MCPBuilder/MCPServerDialog/sections/__tests__/TrustSection.spec.tsx b/client/src/components/SidePanel/MCPBuilder/MCPServerDialog/sections/__tests__/TrustSection.spec.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f573d72465
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/src/components/SidePanel/MCPBuilder/MCPServerDialog/sections/__tests__/TrustSection.spec.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+import { render, screen } from '@testing-library/react';
+import { FormProvider, useForm } from 'react-hook-form';
+import type { ChangeEvent, ReactNode } from 'react';
+import TrustSection from '../TrustSection';
+import type { MCPServerFormData } from '../../hooks/useMCPServerForm';
+
+type LocalizedValue = string | Record<string, string>;
+
+type StartupConfigMock = {
+  interface?: {
+    mcpServers?: {
+      trustCheckbox?: {
+        label?: LocalizedValue;
+        subLabel?: LocalizedValue;
+      };
+    };
+  };
+};
+
+let mockStartupConfig: StartupConfigMock | undefined;
+
+jest.mock('~/data-provider', () => ({
+  useGetStartupConfig: () => ({ data: mockStartupConfig }),
+}));
+
+jest.mock('~/hooks', () => ({
+  useLocalize: () => (key: string) => {
+    const translations: Record<string, string> = {
+      com_ui_trust_app: 'I trust this app',
+      com_agents_mcp_trust_subtext: 'Only continue if you trust this MCP server.',
+      com_ui_field_required: 'This field is required',
+    };
+    return translations[key] ?? key;
+  },
+  useLocalizedConfig: () => (value: LocalizedValue | undefined, fallback: string) => {
+    if (value === undefined) {
+      return fallback;
+    }
+    if (typeof value === 'string') {
+      return value;
+    }
+    return value.en ?? Object.values(value)[0] ?? fallback;
+  },
+}));
+
+jest.mock(
+  '@librechat/client',
+  () => {
+    const React = jest.requireActual<typeof import('react')>('react');
+    return {
+      Checkbox: ({
+        checked,
+        onCheckedChange,
+        ...props
+      }: {
+        checked: boolean;
+        onCheckedChange: (checked: boolean) => void;
+      }) =>
+        React.createElement('input', {
+          type: 'checkbox',
+          checked,
+          onChange: (event: ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => onCheckedChange(event.target.checked),
+          ...props,
+        }),
+      Label: ({ children, ...props }: { children: ReactNode }) =>
+        React.createElement('label', props, children),
+    };
+  },
+  { virtual: true },
+);
+
+function createDefaultValues(): MCPServerFormData {
+  return {
+    title: '',
+    description: '',
+    icon: '',
+    url: '',
+    type: 'streamable-http',
+    auth: {
+      auth_type: 'none' as MCPServerFormData['auth']['auth_type'],
+    },
+    trust: false,
+  };
+}
+
+function renderTrustSection() {
+  function Wrapper() {
+    const methods = useForm<MCPServerFormData>({
+      defaultValues: createDefaultValues(),
+    });
+    return (
+      <FormProvider {...methods}>
+        <TrustSection />
+      </FormProvider>
+    );
+  }
+
+  return render(<Wrapper />);
+}
+
+describe('TrustSection', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    mockStartupConfig = undefined;
+  });
+
+  it('sanitizes script-capable trust checkbox label and sub-label HTML', () => {
+    mockStartupConfig = {
+      interface: {
+        mcpServers: {
+          trustCheckbox: {
+            label:
+              '<img src=x onerror="window.__trustXss = true">Trust <script>alert(1)</script><strong>OK</strong>',
+            subLabel:
+              '<a href="javascript:alert(1)" onclick="window.__trustXss = true"><strong>Learn</strong></a><svg onload="alert(1)"></svg>',
+          },
+        },
+      },
+    };
+
+    const { container } = renderTrustSection();
+    const label = container.querySelector('#trust-label');
+    const description = container.querySelector('#trust-description');
+    const link = screen.getByText('Learn').closest('a');
+
+    expect(label).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(description).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(label?.innerHTML).not.toMatch(/onerror/i);
+    expect(description?.innerHTML).not.toMatch(/onclick/i);
+    expect(container.querySelector('img')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(container.querySelector('script')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(container.querySelector('svg')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(link).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(link).not.toHaveAttribute('href');
+    expect(link).toHaveAttribute('target', '_blank');
+    expect(link).toHaveAttribute('rel', 'noopener noreferrer');
+  });
+
+  it('preserves documented formatting while normalizing links', () => {
+    mockStartupConfig = {
+      interface: {
+        mcpServers: {
+          trustCheckbox: {
+            label: { en: 'I <em>understand</em>' },
+            subLabel:
+              'Read <a href="https://example.com/docs" target="_self"><strong>Learn more.</strong></a><br><code>safe</code>',
+          },
+        },
+      },
+    };
+
+    const { container } = renderTrustSection();
+    const emphasis = screen.getByText('understand');
+    const strong = screen.getByText('Learn more.');
+    const code = screen.getByText('safe');
+    const link = strong.closest('a');
+
+    expect(emphasis.tagName).toBe('EM');
+    expect(strong.tagName).toBe('STRONG');
+    expect(code.tagName).toBe('CODE');
+    expect(container.querySelector('#trust-description br')).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(link).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(link).toHaveAttribute('href', 'https://example.com/docs');
+    expect(link).toHaveAttribute('target', '_blank');
+    expect(link).toHaveAttribute('rel', 'noopener noreferrer');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/client/src/utils/__tests__/configHtml.test.ts b/client/src/utils/__tests__/configHtml.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..66ee2969e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/src/utils/__tests__/configHtml.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+import {
+  CONFIG_HTML_BLOCK_TAGS,
+  CONFIG_HTML_CLASS_ATTR,
+  CONFIG_HTML_INLINE_TAGS,
+  createConfigHtmlSanitizer,
+  sanitizeConfigHtml,
+} from '../configHtml';
+
+describe('configHtml', () => {
+  it('removes active attributes and unsupported elements', () => {
+    const sanitized = sanitizeConfigHtml(
+      '<img src=x onerror="alert(1)"><a href="javascript:alert(1)" onclick="alert(1)"><strong>Learn</strong></a><script>alert(1)</script><svg onload="alert(1)"></svg>',
+    );
+
+    expect(sanitized).toBe(
+      '<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Learn</strong></a>',
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('keeps configured rich text tags and normalizes links', () => {
+    const sanitize = createConfigHtmlSanitizer({
+      allowedTags: CONFIG_HTML_BLOCK_TAGS,
+      allowedAttr: CONFIG_HTML_CLASS_ATTR,
+    });
+    const sanitized = sanitize(
+      '<p class="notice">Read <a href="https://example.com" target="_self"><strong>more</strong></a><br><code>safe</code></p>',
+    );
+
+    expect(sanitized).toBe(
+      '<p class="notice">Read <a href="https://example.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>more</strong></a><br><code>safe</code></p>',
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('keeps relative links but removes protocol-relative links', () => {
+    const sanitize = createConfigHtmlSanitizer({
+      allowedTags: CONFIG_HTML_INLINE_TAGS,
+    });
+    const sanitized = sanitize(
+      '<a href="/docs">Docs</a> <a href="//example.com/remote">Remote</a>',
+    );
+
+    expect(sanitized).toBe(
+      '<a href="/docs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Docs</a> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Remote</a>',
+    );
+  });
+});
diff --git a/client/src/utils/configHtml.ts b/client/src/utils/configHtml.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..171b8ce629
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/src/utils/configHtml.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import DOMPurify from 'dompurify';
+
+export const CONFIG_HTML_INLINE_TAGS = ['a', 'strong', 'b', 'em', 'i', 'br', 'code'] as const;
+export const CONFIG_HTML_TEXT_TAGS = [...CONFIG_HTML_INLINE_TAGS, 'span'] as const;
+export const CONFIG_HTML_BLOCK_TAGS = [...CONFIG_HTML_TEXT_TAGS, 'p'] as const;
+export const CONFIG_HTML_LINK_ATTR = ['href', 'target', 'rel'] as const;
+export const CONFIG_HTML_CLASS_ATTR = [...CONFIG_HTML_LINK_ATTR, 'class'] as const;
+
+const CONFIG_HTML_SAFE_URI =
+  /^(?:(?:https?|mailto|tel):|(?!(?:\s*[a-z][a-z0-9+.-]*:|\s*\/\/))[\s\S])/i;
+
+type ConfigHtmlSanitizerOptions = {
+  allowedTags?: readonly string[];
+  allowedAttr?: readonly string[];
+};
+
+export function createConfigHtmlSanitizer({
+  allowedTags = CONFIG_HTML_INLINE_TAGS,
+  allowedAttr = CONFIG_HTML_LINK_ATTR,
+}: ConfigHtmlSanitizerOptions = {}) {
+  const sanitizer = DOMPurify();
+  sanitizer.addHook('afterSanitizeAttributes', (node) => {
+    if (node.tagName === 'A') {
+      node.setAttribute('target', '_blank');
+      node.setAttribute('rel', 'noopener noreferrer');
+    }
+  });
+
+  return (html?: string | null): string => {
+    if (!html) {
+      return '';
+    }
+    return sanitizer.sanitize(html, {
+      ALLOWED_TAGS: [...allowedTags],
+      ALLOWED_ATTR: [...allowedAttr],
+      ALLOWED_URI_REGEXP: CONFIG_HTML_SAFE_URI,
+      ALLOW_DATA_ATTR: false,
+      ALLOW_ARIA_ATTR: false,
+    });
+  };
+}
+
+export function sanitizeConfigHtml(html?: string | null, options?: ConfigHtmlSanitizerOptions) {
+  return createConfigHtmlSanitizer(options)(html);
+}
diff --git a/client/src/utils/index.ts b/client/src/utils/index.ts
index 60d87a3a23..14d76e7b73 100644
--- a/client/src/utils/index.ts
+++ b/client/src/utils/index.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ export * from './languages';
 export * from './conversation';
 export * from './endpoints';
 export * from './resources';
+export * from './configHtml';
 export * from './downloadFile';
 export * from './scaleImage';
 export * from './timestamps';