In my codeigniter config I have $config[\'global_xss_filtering\'] = TRUE;
. In my admin section I have a ckeditor which generates the frontend content.
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My case was that I wanted global_xss_filtering to be on by default but sometimes I needed the $_POST (pst you can do this to any global php array e.g. $_GET...) data to be raw as send from the browser, so my solution was to:
then whenever I needed the raw $_POST I would do the following:
global $unsanitized_post;
print_r($unsanitized_post);
The global XSS Filtering is only escaping (or converting) certain "dangerous" html tags like <html>
$config['global_xss_filtering'] = TRUE;
<script>
tags or javascript.
On the page where you receive the forms POST
data use html_entity_decode()
to undo what XSS filtering did.
//by decoding first, we remove everything that XSS filter did
//then we encode all characters equally.
$content = html_entity_decode($this->input->post('template_content'))
Then immediately run it through htmlentities()
$content = htmlentities($content);
Store as a Blob
in MySQL database
html_entity_decode()
This is how I did it. If anyone knows of a major flaw in what I did, please tell me. It seems to be working fine for me. Haven't had any unexpected errors.
Simple do the following on the views when displaying embedded object code like from YouTube and etc:
echo str_replace(array('<', '>'), array('<', '>'), $embed_filed);
Turn it off by default then enable it for places that really need it.
For example, I have it turned off for all my controllers, then enable it for comments, pages, etc.
One thing you can do is create a MY_Input (or MY_Security in CI 2) like the one in PyroCMS and override the xss_clean method with an exact copy, minus the object|embed| part of the regex.
http://github.com/pyrocms/pyrocms/blob/master/system/pyrocms/libraries/MY_Security.php
It's one hell of a long way around, but it works.
Perhaps we could create a config option could be created listing the bad elements for 2.0?
In CodeIgniter 2.0 the best thing to do is to override the xss_clean on the core CI library, using MY_Security.php put this on application/core folder then using /application/config.php
$config['xss_exclude_uris'] = array('controller/method');
here's the MY_Security.php https://gist.github.com/slick2/39f54a5310e29c5a8387:
<?php
/**
* CodeIgniter version 2
* Note: Put this on your application/core folder
*/
class MY_Security extends CI_Security {
/**
* Method: __construct();
* magic
*/
function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
}
function xss_clean($str, $is_image = FALSE)
{
$bypass = FALSE;
/**
* By pass controllers set in /application/config/config.php
* config.php
* $config['xss_exclude_uris'] = array('controller/method')
*/
$config = new CI_Config;
$uri = new CI_URI;
$uri->_fetch_uri_string();
$uri->_explode_segments();
$controllers_list = $config->item('xss_exclude_uris');
// we need controller class and method only
if (!empty($controllers_list))
{
$segments = array(0 => NULL, 1 => NULL);
$segments = $uri->segment_array();
if (!empty($segments))
{
if (!empty($segments[1]))
{
$action = $segments[0] . '/' . $segments[1];
}
else
{
$action = $segments[0];
}
if (in_array($action, $controllers_list))
{
$bypass = TRUE;
}
}
// we unset the variable
unset($config);
unset($uri);
}
if ($bypass)
{
return $str;
}
else
{
return parent::xss_clean($str, $is_image);
}
}
}