Sanitizes content from bad protocols and other characters.

Description

This function searches for URL protocols at the beginning of the string, while handling whitespace and HTML entities.

Parameters

$contentstringrequired

Content to check for bad protocols.

$allowed_protocolsstring[]required

Array of allowed URL protocols.

$countintoptional

Depth of call recursion to this function.

Default:1

Return

Source

function wp_kses_bad_protocol_once( $content, $allowed_protocols, $count = 1 ) {
	$content  = preg_replace( '/(&#0*58(?![;0-9])|&#x0*3a(?![;a-f0-9]))/i', '$1;', $content );
	$content2 = preg_split( '/:|&#0*58;|&#x0*3a;|:/i', $content, 2 );

	if ( isset( $content2[1] ) && ! preg_match( '%/\?%', $content2[0] ) ) {
		$content  = trim( $content2[1] );
		$protocol = wp_kses_bad_protocol_once2( $content2[0], $allowed_protocols );
		if ( 'feed:' === $protocol ) {
			if ( $count > 2 ) {
				return '';
			}
			$content = wp_kses_bad_protocol_once( $content, $allowed_protocols, ++$count );
			if ( empty( $content ) ) {
				return $content;
			}
		}
		$content = $protocol . $content;
	}

	return $content;
}

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