Q:

Restrict JS in SVGs

Does anyone know of a way to prevent JS from running inside of an SVG or stripping out JS from an SVG? In my use case I'd prefer to keep the image as an SVG and not convert it to a JPG. I've thought about stripping out script tags and on-attributes, but I would prefer to avoid a blacklist approach. Alternatively, I've looked at doing a whitelist approach of all attributes and tags, but the list is massive. Any ideas on how to approach this?

A:

Does anyone know of a way to prevent JS from running inside of an SVG

If you embed an SVG as an image, it's guaranteed to not run any contained JS:
<img src="https://example.com/dangerous.svg">

As a side effect this also prevents the SVG from loading any external resources. (See also: SVG as an Image)
If you feel fancy, an iframe sandbox would also prevent any script code from executing:
<iframe sandbox src="https://example.com/dangerous.svg"></iframe>

Note that if you're hosting user-provided SVGs, make sure users can't view them directly in the browser (by typing https://yoursite.example/user-images/dangerous.svg in the URL) since that would trigger the XSS anyway. Instead you need to serve untrusted files as attachments. (See also: Is it safe to store and replay user-provided mime types?)

