#2544: fix(security): XSS vulnerability in Canvas Host + Windows CI stability
## Summary
- Fix **critical XSS vulnerability** in Canvas Host debug page (replaces `innerHTML` with safe DOM manipulation)
- Fix **Windows CI flaky tests** ("Worker exited unexpectedly" errors)
## Changes
### 1. XSS Fix (`src/canvas-host/server.ts`)
**Before (vulnerable):**
```typescript
statusEl.innerHTML =
"Bridge: " +
(hasHelper() ? "<span class='ok'>ready</span>" : "<span class='bad'>missing</span>") +
" · iOS=" + (hasIOS() ? "yes" : "no") +
" · Android=" + (hasAndroid() ? "yes" : "no");
```
**After (safe):**
```typescript
statusEl.textContent = "";
statusEl.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Bridge: "));
const bridgeSpan = document.createElement("span");
bridgeSpan.className = hasHelper() ? "ok" : "bad";
bridgeSpan.textContent = hasHelper() ? "ready" : "missing";
statusEl.appendChild(bridgeSpan);
// ...
```
### 2. Windows CI Fix (`vitest.config.ts`)
Added `singleFork: true` for Windows CI to prevent worker process crashes:
```typescript
poolOptions: {
forks: {
singleFork: useSingleFork, // true on Windows CI
},
},
```
### 3. XSS Prevention Test (`src/canvas-host/server.test.ts`)
Added test to verify safe DOM manipulation patterns are used.
## Security Reference
- **CWE-79**: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
- **OWASP A03:2021**: Injection
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<h2>Greptile Overview</h2>
<h3>Greptile Summary</h3>
This PR addresses a security issue and CI stability:
- Updates the Canvas Host default debug page HTML to build the status line via `textContent`/DOM node creation instead of `innerHTML`, reducing XSS risk in the embedded script (`src/canvas-host/server.ts`).
- Adjusts Vitest’s forks pool configuration to use a single fork on Windows CI to mitigate intermittent worker crashes (`vitest.config.ts`).
- Adds a regression test that fetches the generated default `index.html` and asserts it contains safe DOM manipulation patterns (`src/canvas-host/server.test.ts`).
These changes fit into the existing Canvas Host path serving logic (default index written when missing, live reload injection) and the project-wide Vitest configuration used by CI.
<h3>Confidence Score: 4/5</h3>
- This PR is generally safe to merge and meaningfully improves security and Windows CI stability.
- Changes are localized (string-template HTML update, Vitest config tweak, and a new regression test). The security fix removes the known `innerHTML` sink in the default canvas page. Main concern is the added test’s brittleness: it asserts specific string fragments/variable names in the generated HTML, which can create noisy failures on refactors without improving security coverage.
- src/canvas-host/server.test.ts (new test brittleness)
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