Sanitizing all form inputs

I wanted to share a method I recently used to automatically sanitize all form inputs. I basically used this tutorial as the starting point:
https://www.chronoengine.com/faqs/54-cfv4/cfv4-validation/2675-how-can-i-sanitize-my-form-data.html

I decided to loop through all elements of the $form->data array, including sub arrays, and apply PHP's FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING, along with the custom xss_clean function from the tutorial. Below is the result.

<?php
//sanitize all form fields (Put this code in a custom code module at the top of the On Submit event for each form)

foreach ($form->data as $key=>$value) {
	
	//check for subarrays...
	if (!is_array($form->data[$key])) {
		$form->data[$key]=filter_var($form->data[$key], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
		$form->data[$key]=xss_clean($form->data[$key]);
	}else {
		foreach ($form->data[$key] as $x=>$y) {
		$form->data[$key][$x]=filter_var($form->data[$key][$x], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
		$form->data[$key][$x]=xss_clean($form->data[$key][$x]);	
		}
	}

}

function xss_clean( $data ) {
  // Fix &entity\n;
  $data = str_replace( array( '&', '<', '>' ), array( '&amp;', '&lt;', '&gt;' ), $data );
  $data = preg_replace( '/(&#*\w+)[\x00-\x20]+;/u', '$1;', $data );
  $data = preg_replace( '/(&#x*[0-9A-F]+);*/iu', '$1;', $data );
  $data = html_entity_decode( $data, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8' );

  // Remove any attribute starting with "on" or xmlns
  $data = preg_replace( '#(<[^>]+?[\x00-\x20"\'])(?:on|xmlns)[^>]*+>#iu', '$1>', $data );

  // Remove javascript: and vbscript: protocols
  $data = preg_replace( '#([a-z]*)[\x00-\x20]*=[\x00-\x20]*([`\'"]*)[\x00-\x20]*j[\x00-\x20]*a[\x00-\x20]*v[\x00-\x20]*a[\x00-\x20]*s[\x00-\x20]*c[\x00-\x20]*r[\x00-\x20]*i[\x00-\x20]*p[\x00-\x20]*t[\x00-\x20]*:#iu', '$1=$2nojavascript...', $data );
  $data = preg_replace( '#([a-z]*)[\x00-\x20]*=([\'"]*)[\x00-\x20]*v[\x00-\x20]*b[\x00-\x20]*s[\x00-\x20]*c[\x00-\x20]*r[\x00-\x20]*i[\x00-\x20]*p[\x00-\x20]*t[\x00-\x20]*:#iu', '$1=$2novbscript...', $data );
  $data = preg_replace( '#([a-z]*)[\x00-\x20]*=([\'"]*)[\x00-\x20]*-moz-binding[\x00-\x20]*:#u', '$1=$2nomozbinding...', $data );

  // Only works in IE: <span style="width: expression(alert('Ping!'));"></span>
  $data = preg_replace( '#(<[^>]+?)style[\x00-\x20]*=[\x00-\x20]*[`\'"]*.*?expression[\x00-\x20]*\([^>]*+>#i', '$1>', $data );
  $data = preg_replace( '#(<[^>]+?)style[\x00-\x20]*=[\x00-\x20]*[`\'"]*.*?behaviour[\x00-\x20]*\([^>]*+>#i', '$1>', $data );
  $data = preg_replace( '#(<[^>]+?)style[\x00-\x20]*=[\x00-\x20]*[`\'"]*.*?s[\x00-\x20]*c[\x00-\x20]*r[\x00-\x20]*i[\x00-\x20]*p[\x00-\x20]*t[\x00-\x20]*:*[^>]*+>#iu', '$1>', $data );

  // Remove namespaced elements (we do not need them)
  $data = preg_replace( '#</*\w+:\w[^>]*+>#i', '', $data );

  do {
    // Remove really unwanted tags
    $old_data = $data;
    $data = preg_replace( '#</*(?:applet|b(?:ase|gsound|link)|embed|frame(?:set)?|i(?:frame|layer)|l(?:ayer|ink)|meta|object|s(?:cript|tyle)|title|xml)[^>]*+>#i', '', $data );
  } while ( $old_data !== $data );

  // we are done...
  return $data;
}
?>

so whats the best way to add this to a form, simply to add it as custom code on submit would it be?

:roll: OK sorry I am just after seeing your comment in your php! 😶

anyone use this in chrono forms v6?
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would I only need to change
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$form->data

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to...
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$this->data

or is there any other suggestions or functions that could be used?

Yep just replace all $form with $this