id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,resolution,keywords,cc,repo,theme
1180,Links in markdown can be badly formed,dread,dread,"User can insert bad anchor tags into the User-About and Package-Notes fields and when you view them (web interface) it causes a 500 error.

Need to improve filtering for anchors in markdown.

{{{
<a href=""http://xxxsex.com>nasty/website
}}}
Also check this related exception:
{{{
Module ckan.controllers.user:59 in read
<<          c.is_myself = user.name == c.user
               c.api_key = user.apikey
               c.about_formatted = self._format_about(user.about)
               revisions_q = model.Session.query(model.Revision
                       ).filter_by(author=user.name)
>>  c.about_formatted = self._format_about(user.about)
Module ckan.controllers.user:167 in _format_about
<<      def _format_about(self, about):
               about_formatted = ckan.misc.MarkdownFormat().to_html(about)
               return genshi.HTML(about_formatted) 
       
           def _get_form_password(self):
>>  return genshi.HTML(about_formatted)
WebApp Error: <class 'genshi.input.ParseError'>: junk characters in start tag: u'\u201dhttp://www.settingu': line 1, column 3
}}}",defect,closed,critical,ckan-v1.5-sprint-3,ckan,fixed,,,ckan,none