libs/core: rework luci.util.pcdata() to also escape ascii control chars

[project/luci.git] / libs / core / luasrc / util.lua

diff --git a/libs/core/luasrc/util.lua b/libs/core/luasrc/util.lua
index 10606e8..03eb2f1 100644 (file)
--- a/libs/core/luasrc/util.lua
+++ b/libs/core/luasrc/util.lua
@@ -193,16 +193,24 @@ end
 --- Create valid XML PCDATA from given string.
 -- @param value        String value containing the data to escape
 -- @return             String value containing the escaped data
-local _pcdata_repl = {
-                ["&"] = "&",
-                ['"'] = """,
-                ["'"] = "'",
-                ["<"] = "&#60;",
-                [">"] = "&#62;"
-}
+local function _pcdata_repl(c)
+       local i = string.byte(c)
+
+       if ( i >= 0x00 and i <= 0x08 ) or
+          ( i >= 0x0B and i <= 0x0C ) or
+          ( i >= 0x0E and i <= 0x0F ) or
+          ( i >= 0x26 and i <= 0x27 ) or
+          ( i == 0x7F ) or ( i == 0x22 ) or
+          ( i == 0x3C ) or ( i == 0x3E )
+       then
+               return string.format("&#%i;", i)
+       end
+
+       return c
+end
 
 function pcdata(value)
-       return value and tostring(value):gsub("[&\"'<>]", _pcdata_repl)
+       return value and tostring(value):gsub("[&\"'<>%c]", _pcdata_repl)
 end
 
 --- Strip HTML tags from given string.