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* Copyright 2010 Google Inc.
*
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*
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package com.google.gwt.safehtml.shared;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;
/**
* A simple and relatively inexpensive HTML sanitizer.
*
*
* This sanitizer accepts the subset of HTML consisting of the following
* attribute-free tags:
*
*
* - {@code }, {@code }, {@code }
* - {@code
}, {@code }, {@code },
* {@code }, {@code }, {@code }
* - {@code
}, {@code }. {@code - }
* - {@code
}
*
*
* as well as numeric HTML entities and HTML entity references. Any HTML
* metacharacters that do not appear as part of markup in this subset will be
* HTML-escaped.
*/
public final class SimpleHtmlSanitizer implements HtmlSanitizer {
private static final SimpleHtmlSanitizer INSTANCE = new SimpleHtmlSanitizer();
private static final Set TAG_WHITELIST = new HashSet(
Arrays.asList("b", "em", "i", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "hr",
"ul", "ol", "li"));
/**
* Return a singleton SimpleHtmlSanitizer instance.
*
* @return the instance
*/
public static SimpleHtmlSanitizer getInstance() {
return INSTANCE;
}
/**
* HTML-sanitizes a string.
*
*
* The input string is processed as described above. The result of sanitizing
* the string is guaranteed to be safe to use (with respect to XSS
* vulnerabilities) in HTML contexts, and is returned as an instance of the
* {@link SafeHtml} type.
*
* @param html the input String
* @return a sanitized SafeHtml instance
*/
public static SafeHtml sanitizeHtml(String html) {
if (html == null) {
throw new NullPointerException("html is null");
}
return new SafeHtmlString(simpleSanitize(html));
}
/*
* Sanitize a string containing simple HTML markup as defined above. The
* approach is as follows: We split the string at each occurence of '<'. Each
* segment thus obtained is inspected to determine if the leading '<' was
* indeed the start of a whitelisted tag or not. If so, the tag is emitted
* unescaped, and the remainder of the segment (which cannot contain any
* additional tags) is emitted in escaped form. Otherwise, the entire segment
* is emitted in escaped form.
*
* In either case, EscapeUtils.htmlEscapeAllowEntities is used to escape,
* which escapes HTML but does not double escape existing syntactially valid
* HTML entities.
*/
// TODO(xtof): should this be in a utils class?
private static String simpleSanitize(String text) {
StringBuilder sanitized = new StringBuilder();
boolean firstSegment = true;
for (String segment : text.split("<", -1)) {
if (firstSegment) {
/*
* the first segment is never part of a valid tag; note that if the
* input string starts with a tag, we will get an empty segment at the
* beginning.
*/
firstSegment = false;
sanitized.append(SafeHtmlUtils.htmlEscapeAllowEntities(segment));
continue;
}
/*
* determine if the current segment is the start of an attribute-free tag
* or end-tag in our whitelist
*/
int tagStart = 0; // will be 1 if this turns out to be an end tag.
int tagEnd = segment.indexOf('>');
String tag = null;
boolean isValidTag = false;
if (tagEnd > 0) {
if (segment.charAt(0) == '/') {
tagStart = 1;
}
tag = segment.substring(tagStart, tagEnd);
if (TAG_WHITELIST.contains(tag)) {
isValidTag = true;
}
}
if (isValidTag) {
// append the tag, not escaping it
if (tagStart == 0) {
sanitized.append('<');
} else {
// we had seen an end-tag
sanitized.append("');
// append the rest of the segment, escaping it
sanitized.append(SafeHtmlUtils.htmlEscapeAllowEntities(
segment.substring(tagEnd + 1)));
} else {
// just escape the whole segment
sanitized.append("<").append(
SafeHtmlUtils.htmlEscapeAllowEntities(segment));
}
}
return sanitized.toString();
}
/*
* Note: We purposely do not provide a method to create a SafeHtml from
* another (arbitrary) SafeHtml via sanitization, as this would permit the
* construction of SafeHtml objects that are not stable in the sense that for
* a {@code SafeHtml s} it may not be true that {@code s.asString()} equals
* {@code SimpleHtmlSanitizer.sanitizeHtml(s.asString()).asString()}. While
* this is not currently an issue, it might become one and result in
* unexpected behavior if this class were to become serializable and enforce
* its class invariant upon deserialization.
*/
// prevent external instantiation
private SimpleHtmlSanitizer() {
}
public SafeHtml sanitize(String html) {
return sanitizeHtml(html);
}
}