vulnerability / NVI-00006286 / Revision 1
ZendFramework Cross-site Scripting vector in `Zend_Filter_StripTags`
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zendframework/zendframework1
source listedECOSYSTEM: introduced 1.7.0; fixed 1.7.6
`Zend_Filter_StripTags` is a filtering class analogous to PHP's `strip_tags()` function. In addition to stripping HTML tags and selectively keeping those provided in a whitelist, it also provides the ability to whitelist specific attributes to retain per whitelisted tag. The reporter discovered that attributes that contained whitespace, and in paricular, line breaks, surrounding the attribute assignment operator would not be stripped, regardless of whether or not they were whitelisted. As examples of input affected: ``` Issues ``` When passed to the following code: ``` $filter = new Zend_Filter_StripTags(array('a' => array('href'))); $value = $filter->($html); ``` then the "onclick" attribute would remain, even though it was not specified in the tag's whitelist. This could open potential cross-site scripting attack (XSS) vectors. ## Recommendations If you were using `Zend_Filter_StripTags` and utlizing the attribute whitelisting functionality, you should immediately upgrade to Zend Framework 1.7.6 or above; regardless, it is always best to r
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- GHSA-gwpm-pm6x-h7rj ↗
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