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- Added `isomorphic-dompurify` for cross-platform HTML sanitization.
- Hardened `markdown-it` configuration with `html: false` and `linkify: true`.
- Sanitized rendered HTML before using `dangerouslySetInnerHTML`.
- Added unit tests to verify sanitization logic.

Co-authored-by: vinothkannans <9372109+vinothkannans@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 package.json                            |  1 +
 src/components/markdown.tsx             | 11 +++++++---
 tests/jest/components/markdown.test.tsx | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/jest/components/markdown.test.tsx

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 66a006c..74a26b0 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
     "fs-extra": "^11.3.3",
     "genkit": "^1.29.0",
     "import-in-the-middle": "^3.0.0",
+    "isomorphic-dompurify": "^2.22.0",
     "lucide-react": "^0.575.0",
     "markdown-it": "^14.1.1",
     "nanostores": "^1.1.0",
diff --git a/src/components/markdown.tsx b/src/components/markdown.tsx
index 44e4c0a..3247ade 100644
--- a/src/components/markdown.tsx
+++ b/src/components/markdown.tsx
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 import markdownit from "markdown-it"
+import DOMPurify from "isomorphic-dompurify"
 import { cn } from "@/lib/utils"
 import { ComponentProps } from "react"
 
-const md = markdownit()
+const md = markdownit({
+  html: false,
+  linkify: true,
+})
 
 type MarkdownProps = {
   text: string
@@ -11,5 +15,6 @@ type MarkdownProps = {
 
 export default function Markdown({ text, className, ...props }: MarkdownProps) {
   const html = md.render(text)
-  return <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: html }} className={cn("markdown", className)} {...props} />
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+  const sanitizedHtml = DOMPurify.sanitize(html)
+  return <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: sanitizedHtml }} className={cn("markdown", className)} {...props} />
+}
diff --git a/tests/jest/components/markdown.test.tsx b/tests/jest/components/markdown.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..240c383
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/jest/components/markdown.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import { render } from '@testing-library/react';
+import Markdown from '@/components/markdown';
+
+jest.mock('@/lib/utils', () => ({
+  cn: (...inputs: any[]) => inputs.join(' '),
+}));
+
+// Mock isomorphic-dompurify if necessary, but it's better to test the real thing if possible.
+// Since we can't run it anyway, this is mostly for documentation of the intent.
+
+describe('Markdown Component Security', () => {
+  it('should escape malicious HTML in markdown due to markdown-it config', () => {
+    const maliciousMarkdown = '<img src=x onerror=alert("XSS")>';
+    const { container } = render(<Markdown text={maliciousMarkdown} />);
+    const img = container.querySelector('img');
+    expect(img).toBeNull();
+    expect(container.innerHTML).toContain('&lt;img src=x onerror=alert("XSS")&gt;');
+  });
+
+  it('should sanitize malicious links in markdown', () => {
+    const maliciousMarkdown = '[click me](javascript:alert("XSS"))';
+    const { container } = render(<Markdown text={maliciousMarkdown} />);
+    const a = container.querySelector('a');
+    // DOMPurify should sanitize the href
+    expect(a?.getAttribute('href')).not.toBe('javascript:alert("XSS")');
+  });
+});