Anti-XSS attack

remove_xss

function remove_xss($val) {
   // remove all non-printable characters. CR(0a) and LF(0b) and TAB(9) are allowed
   // this prevents some character re-spacing such as <java\0script>
   // note that you have to handle splits with \n, \r, and \t later since they *are* allowed in some inputs
   $val = preg_replace('/([\x00-\x08,\x0b-\x0c,\x0e-\x19])/', '', $val);

   // straight replacements, the user should never need these since they're normal characters
   // this prevents like <IMG SRC=@avascript:alert('XSS')>
   $search = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';
   $search .= 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
   $search .= '1234567890!@#$%^&*()';
   $search .= '~`";:?+/={}[]-_|\'\\';
   for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($search); $i++) {
      // ;? matches the ;, which is optional
      // 0{0,7} matches any padded zeros, which are optional and go up to 8 chars

      // @ @ search for the hex values
      $val = preg_replace('/(&#[xX]0{0,8}'.dechex(ord($search[$i])).';?)/i', $search[$i], $val); // with a ;
      // @ @ 0{0,7} matches '0' zero to seven times
      $val = preg_replace('/(�{0,8}'.ord($search[$i]).';?)/', $search[$i], $val); // with a ;
   }

   // now the only remaining whitespace attacks are \t, \n, and \r
   $ra1 = array('javascript', 'vbscript', 'expression', 'applet', 'meta', 'xml', 'blink', 'link', 'style', 'script', 'embed', 'object', 'iframe', 'frame', 'frameset', 'ilayer', 'layer', 'bgsound', 'title', 'base');
   $ra2 = array('onabort', 'onactivate', 'onafterprint', 'onafterupdate', 'onbeforeactivate', 'onbeforecopy', 'onbeforecut', 'onbeforedeactivate', 'onbeforeeditfocus', 'onbeforepaste', 'onbeforeprint', 'onbeforeunload', 'onbeforeupdate', 'onblur', 'onbounce', 'oncellchange', 'onchange', 'onclick', 'oncontextmenu', 'oncontrolselect', 'oncopy', 'oncut', 'ondataavailable', 'ondatasetchanged', 'ondatasetcomplete', 'ondblclick', 'ondeactivate', 'ondrag', 'ondragend', 'ondragenter', 'ondragleave', 'ondragover', 'ondragstart', 'ondrop', 'onerror', 'onerrorupdate', 'onfilterchange ',' onfinish ',' onfocus', 'onfocusin', 'onfocusout', 'onhelp', 'onkeydown', 'onkeypress',' onkeyup ',' onlayoutcomplete ',' onload ',' onlosecapture ',' onmousedown ' , 'onmouseenter', 'onmouseleave', 'onmousemove', 'onmouseout', 'onmouseover', 'onmouseup', 'onmousewheel', 'onmove', 'onmoveend', 'onmovestart', 'onpaste', 'onpropertychange', ' onreadystatechange ',' onreset ',' onresize ',' onresizeend ',' onresizestart ',' onrowenter ',' onrowexit ',' onrowsdelete ',' onrowsinserted ',' onscroll ',' onselect ',' onselectionchange ',' onselectstart ' , 'onstart', 'onstop', 'onsubmit', 'onunload');
   $ra = array_merge($ra1, $ra2);

   $found = true; // keep replacing as long as the previous round replaced something
   while ($found == true) {
      $val_before = $val;
      for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($ra); $i++) {
         $pattern = '/';
         for ($j = 0; $j < strlen($ra[$i]); $j++) {
            if ($j > 0) {
               $pattern .= '(';
               $pattern .= '(&#[xX]0{0,8}([9ab]);)';
               $pattern .= '|';
               $pattern .= '|(�{0,8}([9|10|13]);)';
               $pattern .= ')*';
            }
            $pattern .= $ra[$i][$j];
         }
         $pattern .= '/i';
         $replacement = substr($ra[$i], 0, 2).'<x>'.substr($ra[$i], 2); // add in <> to nerf the tag
         $val = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $val); // filter out the hex tags
         if ($val_before == $val) {
            // no replacements were made, so exit the loop
            $found = false;
         }
      }
   }
   return $val;
}

　　

strip_tags

strip_tags — Strip  HTML and PHP tags from strings

illustrate

string strip_tags ( string $str [, string $allowable_tags ] )

This function attempts to return the given string with  str null characters, HTML and PHP tags removed.  It removes tokens using the same mechanism as the function  fgetss()

 parameter

str

Enter a string.

allowable_tags

Use the optional second argument to specify a list of characters not to be stripped.

Note:

HTML comments and PHP tags are also stripped. It is hardcoded here, so it cannot  allowable_tags be changed by parameters.

 return value

Returns the processed string.

htmlspecialchars

htmlspecialchars —  Convert special characters to HTML entities

illustrate

string htmlspecialchars ( string $string [, int $flags = ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401 [, string $encoding = ini_get("default_charset") [, bool $double_encode = TRUE ]]] )

 

&  (& sign)	&
"  (double quotes)	" , unless set ENT_NOQUOTES
'  (single quote)	When set  ENT_QUOTES ,  '  (if yes  ENT_HTML401), or  '  (if yes  ENT_XML1,  ENT_XHTML or  ENT_HTML5).
<  (less than)	<
>  (greater than)	>

parameter

string

The string to convert  .

return value

The converted  string .