Enhance title rendering in GitHub.php for security

[guibranco]

Description

• Enhanced the title rendering in GitHub.php to use htmlentities, improving security against XSS attacks.
• This change ensures that any special characters in the title are properly encoded.

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Changes walkthrough 📝

	Relevant files
Enhancement	GitHub.php Enhance title rendering with htmlentities for security      src/Library/GitHub.php Updated the method to use htmlentities for encoding the title. Improved security by preventing XSS vulnerabilities in title rendering. +1/-1

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Enhanced security by ensuring that item titles are safely rendered in HTML, preventing potential injection attacks.

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Walkthrough

The pull request modifies the processing of item titles in Markdown content by introducing the htmlentities() function to ensure that special characters are safely rendered as plain text. This change enhances the security of the output by preventing potential HTML injection attacks. The overall logic of the function remains unchanged.

Changes

File	Change Summary
Src/Library/GitHub.php	Wrapped item->title in htmlentities() to secure title processing against HTML injection.

Possibly related PRs

• 521: Enhances GitHub API integration and filtering logic, but does not directly relate to title processing changes.

Suggested labels

enhancement, Review effort [1-5]: 4, size/S

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🐰 In the garden where the code does grow,
A title wrapped tight, to keep it aglow.
No more injections, just safe and sound,
In Markdown we trust, with security found!
Hopping along, we celebrate this feat,
A safer output, oh, what a treat! 🥕

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Commits

Files that changed from the base of the PR and between 93df0f2147114877175ddee95ed7a01e0bfb25a4 and 4af167922d3c1e034b9bfd6668f4a20e061b76d3.

Files selected for processing (1)

* Src/Library/GitHub.php (1 hunks)

Additional comments not posted (1)

Src/Library/GitHub.php (1)

`133-133`: **Good security enhancement!** Wrapping the `$item->title` in the `htmlentities()` function is a good security practice to prevent potential XSS attacks by converting special characters to HTML entities. This ensures any special characters in the title are safely rendered as plain text in the resulting HTML.

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PR Review 🔍

⏱️ Estimated effort to review [1-5]	2, because the change is straightforward and primarily involves a single method update for security enhancement.
🧪 Relevant tests	No
⚡ Possible issues	No
🔒 Security concerns	No

[penify-dev[bot]]

PR Code Suggestions ✨

Category	Suggestion	Score
Security	Sanitize the title to prevent potential XSS attacks ___ **Ensure that $item->title is sanitized before being passed to setContent to prevent XSS vulnerabilities.** [Src/Library/GitHub.php [133]](https://github.com/guibranco/projects-monitor/pull/531/files#diff-88228a2fc233898d2aa4241f4469dc3d7d7c57e3372fb72f5c440f48ad4c8405R133-R133) ```diff -$mkd->setContent(htmlentities($item->title)); +$mkd->setContent(htmlspecialchars(trim($item->title), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')); ``` Suggestion importance[1-10]: 9 Why: This suggestion addresses a critical security concern by ensuring that the title is sanitized, which is essential for preventing XSS vulnerabilities.	9
	Replace htmlentities with htmlspecialchars for improved security ___ **Consider using htmlspecialchars instead of htmlentities for better security and compatibility with HTML5.** [Src/Library/GitHub.php [133]](https://github.com/guibranco/projects-monitor/pull/531/files#diff-88228a2fc233898d2aa4241f4469dc3d7d7c57e3372fb72f5c440f48ad4c8405R133-R133) ```diff -$mkd->setContent(htmlentities($item->title)); +$mkd->setContent(htmlspecialchars($item->title, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')); ``` Suggestion importance[1-10]: 8 Why: This suggestion improves security by using `htmlspecialchars`, which is generally preferred for escaping HTML entities, thus reducing the risk of XSS attacks.	8
Maintainability	Add a check to ensure $item->title is valid before using it ___ **Consider checking if $item->title is set and is a string before processing to avoid potential errors.** [Src/Library/GitHub.php [133]](https://github.com/guibranco/projects-monitor/pull/531/files#diff-88228a2fc233898d2aa4241f4469dc3d7d7c57e3372fb72f5c440f48ad4c8405R133-R133) ```diff -$mkd->setContent(htmlentities($item->title)); +if (isset($item->title) && is_string($item->title)) { + $mkd->setContent(htmlspecialchars(trim($item->title), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')); +} ``` Suggestion importance[1-10]: 7 Why: This suggestion enhances maintainability by adding checks to prevent potential errors, although it is not as critical as the previous suggestions.	7
	Rename $mkd to a more descriptive variable name for clarity ___ **Consider using a more descriptive variable name than `$mkd` for better code readability.** [Src/Library/GitHub.php [133-134]](https://github.com/guibranco/projects-monitor/pull/531/files#diff-88228a2fc233898d2aa4241f4469dc3d7d7c57e3372fb72f5c440f48ad4c8405R133-R134) ```diff -$mkd->setContent(htmlentities($item->title)); +$markdownParser->setContent(htmlspecialchars(trim($item->title), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')); ``` Suggestion importance[1-10]: 5 Why: While improving variable naming can enhance readability, this suggestion does not address a critical issue and is more of a style preference.	5

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Infisical secrets check: :white_check_mark: No secrets leaked!

Scan results:

12:00AM INF scanning for exposed secrets...
12:00AM INF 480 commits scanned.
12:00AM INF scan completed in 257ms
12:00AM INF no leaks found

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Quality Gate passed

Issues
0 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
0.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

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