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symfony/ux-autocomplete: Information exposure via unescaped LIKE wildcards in EntitySearchUtil

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### Description

`Symfony\UX\Autocomplete\Doctrine\EntitySearchUtil::addSearchClause()` builds the `LIKE` expression used by the autocomplete endpoint by wrapping the client-supplied query in `%...%` without escaping the SQL `LIKE` wildcards (`%`, `_`, `\`). The value is passed as a bound parameter, so this is not SQL injection, but a client can send `%` to match every row or use `_` as a single-character wildcard.

Because `searchable_fields` defaults to every property of the entity and the autocomplete endpoint is public by default (`BaseEntityAutocompleteType` ships with `security => false`), an unauthenticated user can turn the endpoint into a broad matcher or a blind boolean oracle against every column of the entity, including columns the application never intended to expose.

### Resolution

`EntitySearchUtil` now escapes `\`, `%`, and `_` in the user-supplied query with `addcslashes()` and appends an explicit `ESCAPE '\'` clause to the generated `LIKE` expression, so those characters are matched literally. The exact-match `words_query` `IN()` branch is unchanged.

The patch for this issue is available [here](https://github.com/symfony/ux/commit/725ab3d40689c91ff19ad2d01940a30007769214) for branch 2.x (and forward-ported to 3.x).

### Credits

Symfony would like to thank Pascal Cescon for reporting the issue and providing the fix.

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Affected packages

Packagist / symfony/ux-autocomplete
Introduced in: 2.2.0 Fixed in: 2.36.0
Fix composer require symfony/ux-autocomplete:^2.36.0
Packagist / symfony/ux-autocomplete
Introduced in: 3.0.0 Fixed in: 3.1.0
Fix composer require symfony/ux-autocomplete:^3.1.0

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