In my AEM project, we have client-side dynamic variable functionality which checks for any strings that are formed inside of a ${ } wrapper. The dynamic variable values are coming from our cookies. Replacing this with a more friendly format that does not conflict with Sightly is not an option at the moment, so please don't tell me to do that :)
When creating an anchor tag in the source editor of the Text core component, I am setting the href as the following: href="/content/en/opt-in.html?hash=${/profile/hash}". The anti-Samy configuration is blocking the href attribute from being rendered on this element, but I have tried to add the following to the overlayed file /apps/cq/xssprotection/config.xml:
<regexp name="expressionURLWithSpecialCharacters" value="(\$\{(\w|\/|:)+\})"/>
<regexp-list>
<regexp name="onsiteURL"/>
<regexp name="offsiteURL"/>
<regexp name="expressionURL"/>
<regexp name="expressionURLWithSpecialCharacters"/>
</regexp-list>
^ inside of the <attribute name="href"> block of common-attributes. Is there something else I need to do in order to make this not be filtered out so that it can be correctly parsed by the global variable replacement? Thanks!
Vlad, your second point was helpful in that I hadn't considered that one of the regular expressions in the XSS Protection configuration href attribute block needed to match the ${/profile/hash} in addition to the rest of the URL preceding and following it. Although to your first point, the RTE actually did save the special characters as-is into the JCR and did not encode them, probably since I was using the source editor mode and not the inline text editor.
What I ended up doing was creating a new regular expression as follows:
<regexp name="onsiteURLWithVariableExpression"
value="(?!\s*javascript(?::|&colon;))(?:(?://(?:(?:(?:(?:\p{L}\p{M}*)|[\p{N}-._~])|(?:%\p{XDigit}\p{XDigit})|(?:[!$&'()*+,;=]))*@)?(?:\[(?:(?:(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:){6}(?:(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:\p{XDigit}{1,4})|(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])))|(?:::(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:){5}(?:(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:\p{XDigit}{1,4})|(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])))|(?:(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}){0,1}::(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:){4}(?:(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:\p{XDigit}{1,4})|(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])))|(?:(?:(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:){0,1}\p{XDigit}{1,4})?::(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:){3}(?:(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:\p{XDigit}{1,4})|(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])))|(?:(?:(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:){0,2}\p{XDigit}{1,4})?::(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:){2}(?:(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:\p{XDigit}{1,4})|(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])))|(?:(?:(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:){0,3}\p{XDigit}{1,4})?::(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:){1}(?:(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:\p{XDigit}{1,4})|(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])))|(?:(?:(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:){0,4}\p{XDigit}{1,4})?::(?:(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:\p{XDigit}{1,4})|(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])))|(?:(?:(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:){0,5}\p{XDigit}{1,4})?::(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}))|(?:(?:(?:\p{XDigit}{1,4}:){0,6}\p{XDigit}{1,4})?::))]|(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])\.(?:\p{N}|[\x31-\x39]\p{N}|1\p{N}{2}|2[\x30-\x34]\p{N}|25[\x30-\x35])|(?:(?:(?:\p{L}\p{M}*)|[\p{N}-._~])*|(?:%\p{XDigit}\p{XDigit})*|(?:[!$&'()*+,;=])*))(?::\p{Digit}+)?(?:/|(/(?:(?:\p{L}\p{M}*)|[\p{N}-._~]|%\p{XDigit}\p{XDigit}|[!$&'()*+,;=]|:|@)+/?)*))|(?:/(?:(?:(?:\p{L}\p{M}*)|[\p{N}-._~]|%\p{XDigit}\p{XDigit}|[!$&'()*+,;=]|:|@)+(?:/|(/(?:(?:\p{L}\p{M}*)|[\p{N}-._~]|%\p{XDigit}\p{XDigit}|[!$&'()*+,;=]|:|@)+/?)*))?)|(?:(?:(?:\p{L}\p{M}*)|[\p{N}-._~]|%\p{XDigit}\p{XDigit}|[!$&'()*+,;=]|:|@)+(?:/|(/(?:(?:\p{L}\p{M}*)|[\p{N}-._~]|%\p{XDigit}\p{XDigit}|[!$&'()*+,;=]|:|@)+)*)))?(?:\?(?:(?:\p{L}\p{M}*)|(\$\{(\w|\/|:)+\})|[\p{N}-._~]|%\p{XDigit}\p{XDigit}|[!$&'()*+,;=]|:|@|/|\?)*)?(?:#(?:(?:\p{L}\p{M}*)|[\p{N}-._~]|%\p{XDigit}\p{XDigit}|[!$&'()*+,;=]|:|@|/|\?)*)?"/>
which is just the onsiteURL with my original expressionURLWithSpecialCharacters: (\$\{(\w|\/|:)+\}) value added as a group in the query string parameter section. This enabled AEM to accept this as an href value in my anchor tag.
I appreciate everyone's help!