Release 2.7.1

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog
 
-- Protocol-relative URLs are properly supported for script tags
+## 2.7.1 (2022-07-20)
+
+- Protocol-relative URLs are properly supported for script tags. Thanks to [paweljq](https://github.com/paweljq).
+- A denial-of-service vulnerability has been fixed by replacing global regular expression replacement logic for comment removal with a new implementation. Thanks to Nariyoshi Chida of NTT Security Japan for pointing out the issue.
 
 ## 2.7.0 (2022-02-04)
 

index.js

@@ -612,7 +612,17 @@ function sanitizeHtml(html, options, _recursing) {
     // Clobber any comments in URLs, which the browser might
     // interpret inside an XML data island, allowing
     // a javascript: URL to be snuck through
-    href = href.replace(/<!--.*?-->/g, '');
+    while (true) {
+      const firstIndex = href.indexOf('<!--');
+      if (firstIndex === -1) {
+        break;
+      }
+      const lastIndex = href.indexOf('-->', firstIndex + 4);
+      if (lastIndex === -1) {
+        break;
+      }
+      href = href.substring(0, firstIndex) + href.substring(lastIndex + 3);
+    }
     // Case insensitive so we don't get faked out by JAVASCRIPT #1
     // Allow more characters after the first so we don't get faked
     // out by certain schemes browsers accept

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "sanitize-html",
-  "version": "2.7.0",
+  "version": "2.7.1",
   "description": "Clean up user-submitted HTML, preserving allowlisted elements and allowlisted attributes on a per-element basis",
   "sideEffects": false,
   "main": "index.js",