[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #8767: Refactored filters to avoid potential XSS attacks

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#8767: Refactored filters to avoid potential XSS attacks
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 Reporter:  sambauers     |       Owner:  ryan                         
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new                          
 Priority:  high          |   Milestone:  2.7.1                        
Component:  Security      |     Version:  2.7                          
 Severity:  major         |    Keywords:  has-patch, needs-testing, XSS
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 Attached patch introduces new and refactored functions for filtering
 input. They mostly work as additional defence against invalid UTF8 XSS
 attacks in IE6.

 New wp_specialchars() is optimised for PHP 5.2.3+

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8767>
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