Escape special characters in DOM2Writer#399
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without XML escaping. Any <, &, or " characters in content produced malformed XML and if not handled properly could allow injection of arbitrary markup.
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There are functions to do this in Apache Commons instead of rolling my own escape() function, but this seemed simple enough |
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b50d424io/utils/DOM2Writer.java: element text and attribute values were written without XML escaping. Any <, &, or " characters in content produced malformed XML and if not handled properly could allow injection of arbitrary markup.