HTML escape can be improved by escaping all dangerous chars. HTML escape can be improved by escaping “<”, “>”, “”“, ”'“, ”&“ and ”/“.
OWASP recommends escaping ”<“, ”>“, ”“”, “'”, “&” and “/”.
PHP 5.6 has default character encoding, If PHP ignores ENT_COMPAT, users may write simply
<textarea><?php echo htmlentities($str); ?></textarea>
Weak legacy scripts may be protected also by this change.
User may do
<tag attr=<?php echo htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') ?>>
When this is the case, HTML TAG structure is broken. It's broken in first place as attribute is not quoted, but it would not be good to destroy tag structure while we can avoid it.
Or broken HTML parser may recognize JavaScript comment and execute malicious code.
<tag onmouseover="user_code_here;/*"><tag foo="*/ evil_code_here;"> <tag onmouseover=user_code_here;/* ><tag foo=*/evil_code_here; >
Escaping all chars recommended by OWASP always is more secure and preferred.
NOTE: PCI DSS standard requires to follow OWASP, SANS, NIST and other security standards and guidelines.
Escape all chars OWASP recommends.
None for almost all applications.
Since output differs, there might be test program issues.
PHP 5.6 and up
VOTE: 2014/02/17 - 2014/02/24
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