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html_title - Unsupported - SA-CONTRIB-2017-059 Resolution Public Security Fix

>>> [!note] Migrated issue   Reported by: [generalredneck](https://www.drupal.org/user/368854) >>> All, I'm sorry for the delay but with some misunderstanding under my part, this has been delayed... Below is the issue and a proposed resolution <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/2899340">https://www.drupal.org/node/2899340</a> <h2>Original Report</h2> <blockquote> [...] All code everywhere else assumes that the node title is HTML escaped, and therefore safe for attributes. By switching to filter_xss() it breaks that assumption and allows people to break out of for example a title attribute easily. To fix this, I'd suggest going back to check_plain(), and then manually decoding specific HTML tags - i.e. look for and switch that back to . That way everything else that check_plain() does is handled and it's just a case of decoding entities known to be safe. </blockquote> <h2>Problem</h2> Xss::filterAdmin() can only be used on complete HTML strings...If we XSS filter a string but don't escape it, then using it as an attribute (any attribute) is an XSS vector - you can break out of the attribute with foo" onmouseover="alert(1) <h2>How to reproduce</h2> <blockquote> An example of how this impacts 7.x: Create a custom theme (or for this example, just modify Bartik) Note that the docs of node.tpl.php say $title: the (sanitized) title of the node., which is true because template_preprocess_node() calls <code>$variables['title'] = check_plain($node->title);</code>. Ok, great, so now modify your theme's (or Bartik's) node.tpl.php, so that instead of <pre><a href="<?php print $node_url; ?>"><?php print $title; ?></a></pre>you have <code><a href="<?php print $node_url; ?>" title="<?php print $title; ?>"><?php print $title; ?></a></code> You might ask: why would you duplicate link text in the title attribute. I don't know, but I've seen that pattern quite a bit on the web. In any case, that's safe, because check_plain() is suitable for attribute values. But, now install <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/html_title">https://www.drupal.org/project/html_title</a>. And with that enabled, create a node with the following title: foo" onmouseover="alert(1). Boom: you now have XSS. Because, html_title_preprocess_node() does $vars['title'] = filter_xss($vars['elements']['#node']->title, ...);, which is a fine sanitization for something printed as an HTML fragment, but not an ok sanitization for an attribute value.</blockquote> <h2>Proposed Soutions</h2> To see the original proposed solution see the Original Report. My solution is as follows: The idea is that I use the same HTML correction that the filter module does (which is basically load it into php dom and let it go to town) and THEN I apply all of <ul> <li>escaping to double quotes</li> <li>single quotes</li> <li>and xss filter checking</li> </ul> Because php dom doesn't escape quotes (because it's valid XML) I had to hack that part up a bit... but I make sure to only do this to "text nodes". This is because I want to maintain the same usability for class, id, and other attributes as to break a little as possible while still preventing the security hole.

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