[ML] Fix HTML named characters encoding (#72060)

* [ML] improve special characters encoding

* [ML] update renovate.json5

renovate.json5

@@ -418,6 +418,14 @@
           '@types/has-ansi',
         ],
       },
+      {
+        groupSlug: 'he',
+        groupName: 'he related packages',
+        packageNames: [
+          'he',
+          '@types/he',
+        ],
+      },
       {
         groupSlug: 'history',
         groupName: 'history related packages',

x-pack/package.json

@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
     "@types/graphql": "^0.13.2",
     "@types/gulp": "^4.0.6",
     "@types/hapi__wreck": "^15.0.1",
+    "@types/he": "^1.1.1",
     "@types/hoist-non-react-statics": "^3.3.1",
     "@types/history": "^4.7.3",
     "@types/jest": "^25.2.3",
@@ -265,6 +266,7 @@
     "graphql-tools": "^3.0.2",
     "h2o2": "^8.1.2",
     "handlebars": "4.7.6",
+    "he": "^1.2.0",
     "history": "4.9.0",
     "history-extra": "^5.0.1",
     "i18n-iso-countries": "^4.3.1",

x-pack/plugins/ml/public/application/util/string_utils.test.ts

@@ -126,8 +126,11 @@ describe('ML - string utils', () => {
       expect(mlEscape('foo<bar')).toBe('foo&lt;bar');
       expect(mlEscape('foo>bar')).toBe('foo&gt;bar');
       expect(mlEscape('foo"bar')).toBe('foo&quot;bar');
-      expect(mlEscape("foo'bar")).toBe('foo&#39;bar');
-      expect(mlEscape('foo/bar')).toBe('foo&#x2F;bar');
+      expect(mlEscape("foo'bar")).toBe('foo&apos;bar');
+      expect(mlEscape('foo/bar')).toBe('foo&sol;bar');
+      expect(mlEscape('escape © everything ≠ / 𝌆 \\')).toBe(
+        'escape&#x20;&copy;&#x20;everything&#x20;&ne;&#x20;&sol;&#x20;&#xD834;&#xDF06;&#x20;&#x5C;'
+      );
     });
   });
 

x-pack/plugins/ml/public/application/util/string_utils.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
  */
 import _ from 'lodash';
 import d3 from 'd3';
+import he from 'he';
 
 import { CustomUrlAnomalyRecordDoc } from '../../../common/types/custom_urls';
 import { Detector } from '../../../common/types/anomaly_detection_jobs';
@@ -105,15 +106,17 @@ export function toLocaleString(x: number | undefined | null): string {
 
 // escape html characters
 export function mlEscape(str: string): string {
-  const entityMap: { [escapeChar: string]: string } = {
-    '&': '&',
-    '<': '&lt;',
-    '>': '&gt;',
-    '"': '&quot;',
-    "'": '&#39;',
-    '/': '&#x2F;',
-  };
-  return String(str).replace(/[&<>"'\/]/g, (s) => entityMap[s]);
+  // It's not possible to use "he" encoding directly
+  // because \ and / characters are not going to be replaced without
+  // encodeEverything option. But with this option enabled
+  // each word character is encoded as well.
+  return String(str).replace(/\W/g, (s) =>
+    he.encode(s, {
+      useNamedReferences: true,
+      encodeEverything: true,
+      allowUnsafeSymbols: false,
+    })
+  );
 }
 
 // Escapes reserved characters for use in Elasticsearch query terms.

yarn.lock

@@ -5141,6 +5141,11 @@
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/has-ansi/-/has-ansi-3.0.0.tgz#636403dc4e0b2649421c4158e5c404416f3f0330"
   integrity sha512-H3vFOwfLlFEC0MOOrcSkus8PCnMCzz4N0EqUbdJZCdDhBTfkAu86aRYA+MTxjKW6jCpUvxcn4715US8g+28BMA==
 
+"@types/he@^1.1.1":
+  version "1.1.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/he/-/he-1.1.1.tgz#19e14033c4ee8f1a702c74dcc6182664839ac2b7"
+  integrity sha512-jpzrsR1ns0n3kyWt92QfOUQhIuJGQ9+QGa7M62rO6toe98woQjnsnzjdMtsQXCdvjjmqjS2ZBCC7xKw0cdzU+Q==
+
 "@types/history@*":
   version "4.7.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/history/-/history-4.7.2.tgz#0e670ea254d559241b6eeb3894f8754991e73220"
@@ -17063,7 +17068,7 @@ hawk@~6.0.2:
     hoek "4.x.x"
     sntp "2.x.x"
 
-he@1.2.0, he@1.2.x, he@^1.1.1:
+he@1.2.0, he@1.2.x, he@^1.1.1, he@^1.2.0:
   version "1.2.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/he/-/he-1.2.0.tgz#84ae65fa7eafb165fddb61566ae14baf05664f0f"
   integrity sha512-F/1DnUGPopORZi0ni+CvrCgHQ5FyEAHRLSApuYWMmrbSwoN2Mn/7k+Gl38gJnR7yyDZk6WLXwiGod1JOWNDKGw==