Sanitizes a string and removed disallowed URL protocols.

This function removes all non-allowed protocols from the beginning of the string. It ignores whitespace and the case of the letters, and it does understand HTML entities. It does its work recursively, so it won’t be fooled by a string like javascript:javascript:alert(57).

$string string Required

Content to filter bad protocols from.

$allowed_protocols string[] Required

Array of allowed URL protocols.

string Filtered content.

File: wp-includes/kses.php. View all references

function wp_kses_bad_protocol( $string, $allowed_protocols ) {
	$string     = wp_kses_no_null( $string );
	$iterations = 0;

	do {
		$original_string = $string;
		$string          = wp_kses_bad_protocol_once( $string, $allowed_protocols );
	} while ( $original_string != $string && ++$iterations < 6 );

	if ( $original_string != $string ) {
		return '';
	}

	return $string;
}