mdformat-zola is an mdformat plugin that formats Zola-flavored Markdown, keeping shortcodes, heading anchors and code-block annotations intact. This policy says how to report a security problem and how we decide whether a report is one.

Do not open a public issue for a security problem. Use GitHub's private vulnerability reporting. If neither works for you, email gaborjbernat@gmail.com.

Include what the attacker controls and what they gain, the steps or a proof of concept, and the versions and platform you tested. Write the report yourself; unreviewed tool or model output takes longer to triage.

Volunteers maintain mdformat-zola, with no on-call rotation. We aim to acknowledge a report within 5 working days and assess it within 15 working days. Fixes are developed in a private fork attached to the draft advisory, ship in a new release, and the advisory, with a CVE requested through GitHub, goes out with that release. The default embargo is 90 days from the report; we agree any change with the reporter. We credit reporters in the advisory under the name they choose, or not at all. There is no bug bounty.

Only the latest release receives fixes. Confirm the problem reproduces on it before reporting.

A report is a vulnerability when an attacker who controls only an input that the threat model lists as untrusted breaks a guarantee mdformat-zola makes. A report that first needs control of something the threat model trusts, such as the command-line options, the configuration or the files you choose to format, is a bug: we fix it in the open and publish no advisory. Classify by who supplies the dangerous input, not by how bad the outcome sounds.

In scope

• Formatting an untrusted Markdown file, for example one from a pull request in CI, executing code, reading or writing any file other than the one named, or making a network request.
• A small input that makes the formatter hang or exhaust memory.
• An uncaught exception, panic or crash on malformed input instead of a clean error, rated Low.

Out of scope

• Output that changes what a file means, or drops content: a correctness bug we want reported in the open.
• How mdformat finds, reads and writes files, symlinks included; report that to mdformat.
• Malformed input that fails with a clean error.

If you cannot tell which side a finding falls on, report it privately and we will decide.