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🔒 Fix JSON injection vulnerability in custom payload handling#30

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@cmuench cmuench commented Feb 25, 2026

This PR fixes a security vulnerability where custom payloads could be injected with invalid JSON or malicious content due to insufficient escaping. It also fixes a bug where $ characters in values would cause incorrect replacements.

The fix involves:

  1. Using JSON.stringify(value) to generate safe JSON representations of values.
  2. Stripping surrounding quotes from the stringified value if the placeholder is already inside quotes in the template.
  3. Escaping $ characters in the replacement string to $$ to prevent String.prototype.replace from interpreting them as special patterns (e.g., $&).

A new test file tests/security.test.js has been added to verify the fix and prevent regressions.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 11253219302830921117 started by @cmuench

- Replaced manual string escaping with `JSON.stringify` to correctly handle all special characters.
- Handled quoting logic for placeholders inside and outside quotes.
- Escaped `$` characters in replacement values to prevent regex replacement issues.
- Added regression tests in `tests/security.test.js`.

Co-authored-by: cmuench <211294+cmuench@users.noreply.github.com>
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@cmuench cmuench merged commit 0b9fd43 into main Feb 26, 2026
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