web-ui: sanitize markdown HTML with DOMPurify to fix XSS

Both mdNode implementations (agent UI app.js, dashboard common.js)
assigned marked.parse() output straight to innerHTML with no
sanitizer. marked v5+ dropped its built-in sanitize option, and there
was no DOMPurify anywhere in frontend/, so markdown containing raw
HTML/script tags rendered live in the browser.

Both sinks receive untrusted input in practice: the agent UI's mdNode
renders recv tool_result bodies, assistant prose, and send/ask/answer
payloads sourced from peer agents and matrix-relayed messages (the
documented prompt-injection adversary); the dashboard's mdNode renders
agent-authored .md files served verbatim by GET /api/state-file
(the endpoint validates path, not content). Since the per-agent UI and
dashboard are same-origin behind the gateway with operator-authority
endpoints (approve/spawn/rebuild/destroy/answer-question), injected
script would run with the operator's session.

Fix: DOMPurify.sanitize() the marked.parse() output at both sinks
before assigning to innerHTML. Added dompurify as a dependency to
both the agent and dashboard npm workspaces, recomputed npmDepsHash
in nix/frontend.nix for the updated lockfile. Also corrected
docs/web-ui/shape.md, which claimed the markdown-rendering path was
XSS-safe by construction the same way the text-node-based linkify
path is — it isn't; it's safe because it's sanitized.

CSP hardening for the dashboard (no unsafe-inline) is a separate,
larger backend change (response headers in hive-c0re) and is left as
a fast-follow rather than folded into this fix.
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iris 2026-07-10 02:46:51 +02:00 committed by mara
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@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ buildNpmPackage {
# Update whenever the lockfile changes. Recompute locally with the
# same command (`pkgs.prefetch-npm-deps`), or let the build fail
# and copy the actual hash from the error message.
npmDepsHash = "sha256-3pBR4YDE/ZQ9w7wzIwdGL/n6VSKRtM0m+7ftu1uUOdE=";
npmDepsHash = "sha256-/aklU+l5HqSs4l68gf9J3mgyKM30reBgTkaEjtx2MNY=";
# `npm run build` recurses into all workspaces (`--workspaces
# --if-present`). The workspaces' build scripts each run their own