Fedora 21: php-htmLawed Security Update
Summary
PHP code to purify and filter HTML
* make HTML markup in text secure and standard-compliant
* process text for use in HTML, XHTML or XML documents
* restrict HTML elements, attributes or URL protocols
using black or white-lists
* balance tags, check element nesting, transform deprecated
attributes and tags, make relative URLs absolute, etc.
* fast, highly customizable, well-documented
* single, 48 kb file
* simple HTML Tidy alternative
* free and licensed under LGPL v3 and GPL v2+
* use to filter, secure and sanitize HTML in blog comments or
forum posts, generate XML-compatible feed items from web-page
excerpts, convert HTML to XHTML, pretty-print HTML, scrape
web-pages, reduce spam, remove XSS code, etc.
Update Information:
**1.1.20** - 9 June 2015. Fix for a potential security vulnerability arising from unescaped double-quote character in single-quoted attribute value of some deprecated elements when tag transformation is enabled; recognition for non-(HTML4) standard 'allowfullscreen' attribute of 'iframe.'
Change Log
* Thu Jun 18 2015 Remi Collet
References
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-10169 2015-06-20 13:33:20 Name : php-htmLawed Product : Fedora 21 Version : 1.1.20 Release : 1.fc21 URL : http://www.bioinformatics.org/phplabware/internal_utilities/htmLawed/ Summary : PHP code to purify and filter HTML Description : PHP code to purify and filter HTML * make HTML markup in text secure and standard-compliant * process text for use in HTML, XHTML or XML documents * restrict HTML elements, attributes or URL protocols using black or white-lists * balance tags, check element nesting, transform deprecated attributes and tags, make relative URLs absolute, etc. * fast, highly customizable, well-documented * single, 48 kb file * simple HTML Tidy alternative * free and licensed under LGPL v3 and GPL v2+ * use to filter, secure and sanitize HTML in blog comments or forum posts, generate XML-compatible feed items from web-page excerpts, convert HTML to XHTML, pretty-print HTML, scrape web-pages, reduce spam, remove XSS code, etc.
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update php-htmLawed' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .