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GHSA-4j38-f5cw-54h7

Twig: The `spaceless` filter implicitly marks its output as safe

Details

### Description

The `spaceless` filter is registered with `is_safe => ['html']`, which means Twig's autoescaper does not escape its output in an HTML context. As a result, applying `spaceless` to attacker-controlled input that contains markup emits the markup unescaped even when the developer never wrote `|raw` and autoescape is enabled.

Example:

```twig {% set payload = '<script>alert()</script>' %} {{ payload }} {# escaped #} {{ payload|spaceless }} {# not escaped #} ```

The filter is deprecated but still functional. With the deprecation, some downstream projects (e.g. Drupal modules) have duplicated the filter and inherited the same `is_safe` flag.

### Resolution

The `spaceless` filter no longer marks its output as safe. Documentation has been updated to warn that `spaceless` should not be applied to unsanitised user input.

### Credits

Twig would like to thank Pierre Rudloff for reporting the issue.

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Affected packages

Packagist / twig/twig
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 3.26.0
Fix composer require twig/twig:^3.26.0

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