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Rule proposal: `.replace` or `.replaceAll` with non-literal replacement

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#2 309 ouverte le 5 avr. 2024

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Description

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One might think that a function like this generates safe HTML because the argument is HTML-escaped.

function imageLink(url) {
  const IMAGE_TEMPLATE = '<img src="{url}">';
  return IMAGE_TEMPLATE.replace('{url}', htmlEscape(url));
}

But in fact there’s a very obscure cross-site scripting vulnerability here, abusing the $` replacement sequence interpreted by String.prototype.replace and .replaceAll!

imageLink("$` onerror=alert(1) ")
//=> '<img src="<img src=" onerror=alert(1) ">'

To protect against this mistake, it would be nice to have an ESLint rule that forbids use of .replace and .replaceAll where the second argument isn’t a string literal or a function.

Fail

IMAGE_TEMPLATE.replace('{url}', htmlEscape(url))

Pass

IMAGE_TEMPLATE.replace('{url}', () => htmlEscape(url))
IMAGE_TEMPLATE.replace('{url}', "https://example.com")

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