CyTube/lib/xss.js

/*
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Copyright (c) 2013 Calvin Montgomery

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*/

/*
    WARNING

    This file contains an XSS prevention module I wrote myself.  It has not
    been verified by any external agency, and due to the nature of XSS I cannot
    guarantee that it will filter correctly.  Feel free to send me bug reports
    and I will do my best to fix them, but use at your own risk.

*/

/* Prototype for a basic XML tag parser */
function TagParser(text) {
    this.text = text;
    this.i = 0;
    this.tag = this.parse();
}

/* Moves the position marker past any whitespace characters */
TagParser.prototype.skipWhitespace = function () {
    while (this.i < this.text.length && this.text[this.i].match(/\s/)) {
        this.i++;
    }
};

/* Reads a literal value matching the given regexp.  Defaults
   to /[^\s>]/; i.e. any string not containing whitespace or
   the end of tag character '>'
*/
TagParser.prototype.readLiteral = function (regexp) {
    if (regexp === void 0) {
        regexp = /[^\s>]/;
    }
    var str = "";
    while (this.i < this.text.length && this.text[this.i].match(regexp)) {
        str += this.text[this.i];
        this.i++;
    }
    return str;
};

/* If the character at the current position is a quote, read
   a string.  Otherwise, read a literal
*/
TagParser.prototype.readLiteralOrString = function (regexp) {
    if (this.text[this.i].match(/["']/)) {
        return this.readString();
    }
    return this.readLiteral(regexp);
};

/* Read a string delimited by the character at the current
   position.  For XML tags this means strings enclosed in
   " or '.  Treats \" as a literal '"' symbol and not a
   delimiter.
*/
TagParser.prototype.readString = function () {
    var delim = this.text[this.i++];

    var str = "";
    while (this.i < this.text.length && this.text[this.i] !== delim) {
        if (this.text[this.i] === "\\" && this.text[this.i+1] === delim) {
            str += this.text[this.i+1];
            this.i++;
        } else {
            str += this.text[this.i];
        }
        this.i++;
    }
    this.i++;
    return str;
};

/* Attempts to parse a tagname and attributes from an
   XML tag.
   NOTE: Does not actually parse a DOM node, only parses
   the tag between '<' and '>' because that's all I need
   to do XSS filtering, I don't care what's between a tag
   and its end tag (if it's another tag I handle that
   separately)
*/
TagParser.prototype.parse = function () {
    this.i = this.text.indexOf("<");
    // Not a tag
    if (this.i === -1) {
        return null;
    }

    this.i++;
    this.skipWhitespace();

    // First non-whitespace string after the opening '<' is the tag name
    var tname = this.readLiteral();

    var attrs = {};
    // Continue parsing attributes until the end of string is reached or
    // the end of tag is reached
    while (this.i < this.text.length && this.text[this.i] !== ">") {
        // Read any string not containing equals, possibly delimited by
        // " or '
        var key = this.readLiteralOrString(/[^\s=>]/);
        this.skipWhitespace();
        // It's possible for tags to have attributes with no value, where
        // the equals sign is not necessary
        if (this.text[this.i] !== "=") {
            if (key.trim().length > 0) {
                attrs[key] = "";
            }
            continue;
        }

        this.i++;
        this.skipWhitespace();
        var value = this.readLiteralOrString();
        if (key.trim().length > 0) {
            attrs[key] = value;
        }
        this.skipWhitespace();
    }

    // If end-of-string was not reached, consume the ending '>'
    if (this.i < this.text.length) {
        this.i++;
    }

    return {
        tagName: tname,
        attributes: attrs,
        text: this.text.substring(0, this.i) // Original text (for replacement)
    };
};

/* Some of these may not even be HTML tags, I borrowed them from the
   [now deprecated] XSS module of node-validator
*/
const badTags = new RegExp([
    "alert",
    "applet",
    "audio",
    "basefont",
    "base",
    "behavior",
    "bgsound",
    "blink",
    "body",
    "embed",
    "expression",
    "form",
    "frameset",
    "frame",
    "head",
    "html",
    "ilayer",
    "iframe",
    "input",
    "layer",
    "link",
    "meta",
    "object",
    "style",
    "script",
    "textarea",
    "title",
    "video",
    "xml",
    "xss"
].join("|"), "i");

/* Nasty attributes.  Anything starting with "on" is probably a javascript
   callback, and I hope you see why formaction is a bad idea.
*/
const badAttrs = new RegExp([
    "\\bon\\S*",
    "\\bformaction"
].join("|"), "i");

/* These are things commonly used in the values of HTML attributes of
   XSS injections.  Go ahead and strip them, they don't have any other
   use besides javascript
*/
const badAttrValues = new RegExp([
    "alert",
    "document.cookie",
    "expression",
    "javascript",
    "location",
    "window"
].join("|"), "ig");

function sanitizeHTML(str) {
    var i = str.indexOf("<");
    if (i === -1) {
        // No HTML tags in the string
        return str;
    }

    // Loop across all tag delimiters '<' in string, parse each one,
    // and replace the results with sanitized tags
    while (i !== -1) {
        var t = new TagParser(str.substring(i)).tag;
        if (t.tagName.replace("/", "").match(badTags)) {
            // Note: Important that I replace the tag with a nonempty value,
            // otherwise <scr<script>ipt> would possibly defeat the filter.
            str = str.replace(t.text, "[tag removed]");
            i = str.indexOf("<", i+1);
            continue;
        }
        for (var k in t.attributes) {
            // If it's an evil attribute, just nuke it entirely
            if (k.match(badAttrs)) {
                delete t.attributes[k];
            } else  {
                if (t.attributes[k].match(badAttrValues)) {
                    // As above, replacing with a nonempty string is important.
                    t.attributes[k] = t.attributes[k].replace(badAttrValues, "[removed]");
                }

                // Keys should not contain non-word characters.
                var k2 = k.replace(/[^\w]/g, "");
                if (k2 !== k) {
                    t.attributes[k2] = t.attributes[k];
                    delete t.attributes[k];
                }
            }
        }
        // Build the sanitized tag
        var fmt = "<" + t.tagName;
        for (var k in t.attributes) {
            if (k.trim().length > 0) {
                fmt += " " + k;
                if (t.attributes[k].trim().length > 0) {
                    fmt += '="' + t.attributes[k] + '"';
                }
            }
        }
        str = str.replace(t.text, fmt + ">");
        i = str.indexOf("<", i + fmt.length + 1);
    }

    return str;
}

/* WIP: Sanitize a string where HTML is prohibited */
function sanitizeText(str) {
    str = str.replace(/&/g, "&amp;")
             .replace(/</g, "&lt;")
             .replace(/>/g, "&gt;")
             .replace(/"/g, "&quot;")
             .replace(/'/g, "&#39;")
             .replace(/\(/g, "&#40;")
             .replace(/\)/g, "&#41;");
    return str;
}

module.exports.sanitizeHTML = sanitizeHTML;