[2.7] bpo-38243: Escape the server title of DocXMLRPCServer (GH-16447)

Escape the server title of DocXMLRPCServer.DocXMLRPCServer
when rendering the document page as HTML.

Lib/DocXMLRPCServer.py

@@ -20,6 +20,16 @@ from SimpleXMLRPCServer import (SimpleXMLRPCServer,
             CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler,
             resolve_dotted_attribute)
 
+
+def _html_escape_quote(s):
+    s = s.replace("&", "&") # Must be done first!
+    s = s.replace("<", "&lt;")
+    s = s.replace(">", "&gt;")
+    s = s.replace('"', "&quot;")
+    s = s.replace('\'', "&#x27;")
+    return s
+
+
 class ServerHTMLDoc(pydoc.HTMLDoc):
     """Class used to generate pydoc HTML document for a server"""
 
@@ -210,7 +220,8 @@ class XMLRPCDocGenerator:
                                 methods
                             )
 
-        return documenter.page(self.server_title, documentation)
+        title = _html_escape_quote(self.server_title)
+        return documenter.page(title, documentation)
 
 class DocXMLRPCRequestHandler(SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler):
     """XML-RPC and documentation request handler class.

Lib/test/test_docxmlrpc.py

 from DocXMLRPCServer import DocXMLRPCServer
 import httplib
+import re
 import sys
 from test import test_support
 threading = test_support.import_module('threading')
@@ -176,6 +177,25 @@ class DocXMLRPCHTTPGETServer(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertIn("""Try&nbsp;self.<strong>add</strong>,&nbsp;too.""",
                       response.read())
 
+    def test_server_title_escape(self):
+        """Test that the server title and documentation
+        are escaped for HTML.
+        """
+        self.serv.set_server_title('test_title<script>')
+        self.serv.set_server_documentation('test_documentation<script>')
+        self.assertEqual('test_title<script>', self.serv.server_title)
+        self.assertEqual('test_documentation<script>',
+                self.serv.server_documentation)
+
+        generated = self.serv.generate_html_documentation()
+        title = re.search(r'<title>(.+?)</title>', generated).group()
+        documentation = re.search(r'<p><tt>(.+?)</tt></p>', generated).group()
+        self.assertEqual('<title>Python: test_title&lt;script&gt;</title>',
+                title)
+        self.assertEqual('<p><tt>test_documentation&lt;script&gt;</tt></p>',
+                documentation)
+
+
 def test_main():
     test_support.run_unittest(DocXMLRPCHTTPGETServer)
 

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-09-25-13-21-09.bpo-38243.1pfz24.rst

+Escape the server title of :class:`DocXMLRPCServer.DocXMLRPCServer`
+when rendering the document page as HTML.
+(Contributed by Dong-hee Na in :issue:`38243`.)