[TYPO3-core] RFC: Improvement of removeXSS

Oliver Hader oliver at typo3.org
Tue Oct 21 15:38:06 CEST 2008


Hi,

Steffen Kamper schrieb:
> This is a SVN patch request.
> 
> Bugtracker references:
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=8978
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=7033
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=9198
> 
> Problem:
> 
> the removeXSS-script used had some lacks. It replaced tags in normal
> text which prevents most from using this script.
> 
> Jigal did some improvements and i reformatted to CGL and tested.
> These changes are done:
> 
> * - bugfixes in regexps
> * - optimizations
> * - quickscan for keywords to speed up the function when no potential
> threats
> * - regexps specific for different type of keywords to reduce false
> positives
> * - configurable "tag replaceString"
> 
> for deeper information about XSS have a look at
> http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html

Any news on this one? By the way: Is there a bug report that holds all
the sub-issues (8978, 7033, 9198)?

olly
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Oliver Hader
TYPO3 4.3 Release Manager


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