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webino/zend-escaper
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Securely and safely escape HTML, HTML attributes, JavaScript, CSS, and URLs

2.6.0(7y ago)18.9kBSD-3-ClausePHPPHP >=7.1

Since Oct 10Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/webino/ZendEscaper)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/webino/zend-escaper)[ RSS](/packages/webino-zend-escaper/feed)WikiDiscussions develop Synced 1w ago

READMEChangelogDependencies (2)Versions (64)Used By (0)

zend-escaper
============

[](#zend-escaper)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/8498916c73f233c1b70157f2b919e5745c9694048d4152282e5c1da4721c013b/68747470733a2f2f7365637572652e7472617669732d63692e6f72672f7a656e646672616d65776f726b2f7a656e642d657363617065722e7376673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://secure.travis-ci.org/zendframework/zend-escaper)[![Coverage Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/82c811d950bc47eb216fa292df8c310f0e1f17d1c8b42fe37214f552d11ae743/68747470733a2f2f636f766572616c6c732e696f2f7265706f732f6769746875622f7a656e646672616d65776f726b2f7a656e642d657363617065722f62616467652e7376673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://coveralls.io/github/zendframework/zend-escaper?branch=master)

The OWASP Top 10 web security risks study lists Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in second place. PHP’s sole functionality against XSS is limited to two functions of which one is commonly misapplied. Thus, the zend-escaper component was written. It offers developers a way to escape output and defend from XSS and related vulnerabilities by introducing contextual escaping based on peer-reviewed rules.

- File issues at
- Documentation is at

###  Health Score

36

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LowBetter than 82% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community20

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity72

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 72.9% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~33 days

Recently: every ~278 days

Total

62

Last Release

2916d ago

PHP version history (4 changes)2.0.3PHP >=5.3.3

2.3.0PHP >=5.3.23

2.5.2PHP >=5.5

2.6.0PHP >=7.1

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/382691?v=4)[Webino](/maintainers/Webino)[@webino](https://github.com/webino)

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Top Contributors

[![weierophinney](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/25943?v=4)](https://github.com/weierophinney "weierophinney (4190 commits)")[![Maks3w](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1301698?v=4)](https://github.com/Maks3w "Maks3w (535 commits)")[![Ocramius](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/154256?v=4)](https://github.com/Ocramius "Ocramius (348 commits)")[![EvanDotPro](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5607?v=4)](https://github.com/EvanDotPro "EvanDotPro (153 commits)")[![akrabat](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/33135?v=4)](https://github.com/akrabat "akrabat (112 commits)")[![ezimuel](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/475967?v=4)](https://github.com/ezimuel "ezimuel (80 commits)")[![marc-mabe](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/302689?v=4)](https://github.com/marc-mabe "marc-mabe (38 commits)")[![ralphschindler](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/76674?v=4)](https://github.com/ralphschindler "ralphschindler (35 commits)")[![sgehrig](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/43394?v=4)](https://github.com/sgehrig "sgehrig (33 commits)")[![michalbundyra](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7423207?v=4)](https://github.com/michalbundyra "michalbundyra (27 commits)")[![Freeaqingme](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/33034?v=4)](https://github.com/Freeaqingme "Freeaqingme (24 commits)")[![DASPRiD](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/233300?v=4)](https://github.com/DASPRiD "DASPRiD (23 commits)")[![mwillbanks](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/38209?v=4)](https://github.com/mwillbanks "mwillbanks (16 commits)")[![padraic](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/19780?v=4)](https://github.com/padraic "padraic (14 commits)")[![Thinkscape](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/270528?v=4)](https://github.com/Thinkscape "Thinkscape (12 commits)")[![bakura10](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1198915?v=4)](https://github.com/bakura10 "bakura10 (11 commits)")[![samsonasik](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/459648?v=4)](https://github.com/samsonasik "samsonasik (11 commits)")[![Koopzington](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3015529?v=4)](https://github.com/Koopzington "Koopzington (10 commits)")[![mikaelkael](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/212540?v=4)](https://github.com/mikaelkael "mikaelkael (9 commits)")[![veewee](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1618158?v=4)](https://github.com/veewee "veewee (9 commits)")

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Tags

escaperframeworklibraryltsv2zendescaperZendFrameworkzf

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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