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jukefox edited comment on LANG-572 at 4/24/13 12:24 PM:
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OK. Heretical question: Could you tell me what is the method useful for when it
is not safe to be used for escaping signs within arbitrary HTML content?
I know of the way of doing it on my own but maybe there are further characters
as well that need to be escaped when being used e.g. within a value of an
attribute.
By the way: ESAPI
({{org.owasp.esapi.reference.DefaultEncoder.encodeForHTML(String)}}), Spring
({{org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml4(String)}}) and GWT
({{com.google.gwt.safehtml.shared.SafeHtmlUtils.htmlEscape(String)}}) all
escape that character. Only Commons Lang does not! After testing against all
those Frameworks I am convinced that Apache Commons Lang should behave the same
way. Please reconsider your decision not to encode that and maybe other missing
characters.
Thanks.
was (Author: jukefox):
OK. Heretical question: Could you tell me what is the method useful for
when it is not safe to be used for escaping signs within arbitrary HTML content?
I know of the way of doing it on my own but maybe there are further characters
as well that need to be escaped when being used e.g. within a value of an
attribute.
By the way: ESAPI
({{org.owasp.esapi.reference.DefaultEncoder.encodeForHTML(String)}}), Spring
({{org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml4(String)}}) and GWT
{{com.google.gwt.safehtml.shared.SafeHtmlUtils.htmlEscape(String)}} all escape
that character. Only Commons Lang does not! After testing against all those
Frameworks I am convinced that Apache Commons Lang should behave the same way.
Please reconsider your decision not to encode that and maybe other missing
characters.
Thanks.
> [XSS] StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml() must escape ' chars to '
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>
> Key: LANG-572
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-572
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: lang.*
> Affects Versions: 2.4
> Environment: Operating System: All
> Platform: All
> Reporter: Keisuke Kato
> Priority: Minor
>
> If developers putting untrusted data into attribute values using the single
> quote character ' and StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml() like:
> <input type='text' name='input'
> value=*'<%=StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml(request.getParameter("input"))%>'*>
> Then, the attacker is able to break out of the HTML attribute context like:
> hxxp://example.org/?input=*' onfocus='alert(document.cookie);' id='*
> <input type='text' name='input'
> value='*'onfocus='alert(document.cookie);'id='*'>
> I think [LANG\-122|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-122] is not
> truly fixed from this aspect (XSS).
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