Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ahmed Gamal <[email protected]>
* Package name : php-laminas-escaper Version : 2.12.0 Upstream Author : Laminas Project a Series of LF Projects, LLC * URL : https://github.com/laminas/laminas-escaper * License : BSD-3-Clause Programming Lang: PHP Section : php Description: Securely and safely escape HTML, HTML attributes, JavaScript, CSS, and URLs Laminas\\Escaper provides a secure way to escape output for HTML, HTML attributes, JavaScript, CSS, and URLs. It is designed to help developers defend against XSS and related vulnerabilities by introducing contextual escaping based on peer-reviewed rules. The package is widely used in PHP applications and frameworks to ensure that user-supplied data is safely output in various contexts. Rationale: This package is required as a dependency for FOSSology, an open source license compliance system. FOSSology uses PHP-based tools for source code analysis and license detection, which rely on secure output escaping to prevent XSS and related vulnerabilities. The php-laminas-escaper package is essential for: - Providing a standardized and secure escaping mechanism for FOSSology components - Ensuring interoperability with other Laminas and PHP libraries - Supporting best practices for output escaping in PHP applications - Enabling integration with a wide range of PHP projects - Promoting maintainable and secure code Technical Details: - Requires PHP >= 7.3 - Implements contextual escaping for HTML, attributes, JS, CSS, and URLs - Uses PSR-4 autoloading - BSD-3-Clause licensed for maximum compatibility - Part of the Laminas Project (successor to Zend Framework) Dependencies: - php (>= 7.3) - Build dependencies: phpunit, php-codesniffer The package will be maintained by Ahmed Gamal <[email protected]> as part of the FOSSology packaging effort. -- Ahmed Gamal FOSSology Debian Packaging Team
