The current version for HtmlPurifier is 4.2.0. Is there still a
vulnerability with it? The site says it's fixed.

Jamie

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Zladivliba Voskuy <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Actually that's the one anwser I was hoping not to get ;-)))
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> Well the problem is that HtmlPurifier comes also with security 
> vulnerabilities, like any other piece of code. So the less code I include the 
> better I am,that was the main idea. Z.--
> My dojo & zend framework experience, the good, the bad with code samples ;-)
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> http://practicalphpajax.wordpress.com/
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>> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 10:29:22 -0600
>> From: [email protected]
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [fw-general] Zend guru advise on how to build a secure function
>>
>> -- Zladivliba Voskuy <[email protected]> wrote
>> (on Tuesday, 01 March 2011, 04:36 PM +0100):
>> > I've been trying to find a solution for this for a while ; I'd like to
>> > use a SecureText function that filters any "potential risky" text
>> > input from my website.
>> >
>> > So what's "potential risky text" for me : everything that's not  :
>> > a-zA-Z0-9 ;.,?+-_![]/()This clears any hack potential from XSS or SQL
>> > injection. This limits the usability of my website, but I don't care,
>> > as long as xss are not possible any more, and sql injections are out
>> > of the way it's perfectly viable for what I want to do and the needs
>> > of my users.
>> >
>> > Now the question is how to build such a function. It seems that I
>> > can't use preg_replace because of unicode characters.I've tried to use
>> > filter_var but I'm not sure it filters also unicode characters. And I
>> > really want to strip everything that's risky it's my main priority.
>> >
>> > Cool guys on #Zftalk have advised to use pregReplace filter build in
>> > ZF since I have a regexp, but I'm not sure regexp is secure so...
>> >
>> > Any help appreciated ! I'm a little lost with this.Thanks !
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>> I'd build a filter that wraps HtmlPurifier, to be honest...
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