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Bug #70897 htmlspecialchars() add unnecessary characters.
Submitted: 2015-11-12 00:15 UTC Modified: 2015-11-22 04:22 UTC
From: reject5514 at naver dot com Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.6.15 OS: Arch Linux ARM 4.1.12
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2015-11-12 00:15 UTC] reject5514 at naver dot com 
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.htmlspecialchars
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htmlspecialchars function add unnessary characters after last encoded character if last character is one of these & < > ' ".


Test script:
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<?php
echo htmlspecialchars('b<>"',ENT_QUOTES|ENT_SUBSTITUTE|ENT_HTML5,'UTF-8');
?>

Expected result:
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b&lt;&gt;&quot;

Actual result:
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b&lt;&gt;&quot;quot;

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 [2015-11-12 00:24 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Feedback -Type: Feature/Change Request +Type: Bug
 [2015-11-12 00:24 UTC] requinix@php.net 
https://3v4l.org/XTslX

I'm not seeing it. Are you sure that's the *exact* output? What if you try

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/plain');
echo htmlspecialchars('b<>"',ENT_QUOTES|ENT_SUBSTITUTE|ENT_HTML5,'UTF-8');
?>

and in a script all by itself?
 [2015-11-22 04:22 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
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