Issue #2505701 by pwolanin, YesCT, akalata: Document SafeMarkup::set and Use htmlspecialchars() directly in Attribute() so we don't bloat the list of safe strings

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Template/Attribute.php

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ use Drupal\Component\Utility\SafeMarkup;
  * @endcode
  *
  * The attribute keys and values are automatically sanitized for output with
- * \Drupal\Component\Utility\SafeMarkup::checkPlain().
+ * htmlspecialchars() and the entire attribute string is marked safe for output.
  */
 class Attribute implements \ArrayAccess, \IteratorAggregate {
 
@@ -252,12 +252,16 @@ class Attribute implements \ArrayAccess, \IteratorAggregate {
    */
   public function __toString() {
     $return = '';
+    /** @var \Drupal\Core\Template\AttributeValueBase $value */
     foreach ($this->storage as $name => $value) {
       $rendered = $value->render();
       if ($rendered) {
         $return .= ' ' . $rendered;
       }
     }
+    // The implementations of AttributeValueBase::render() call
+    // htmlspecialchars() on the attribute name and value so we are confident
+    // that the return value can be set as safe.
     return SafeMarkup::set($return);
   }
 

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Template/AttributeArray.php

@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 
 namespace Drupal\Core\Template;
 
-use Drupal\Component\Utility\SafeMarkup;
-
 /**
  * A class that defines a type of Attribute that can be added to as an array.
  *
@@ -76,7 +74,7 @@ class AttributeArray extends AttributeValueBase implements \ArrayAccess, \Iterat
   public function __toString() {
     // Filter out any empty values before printing.
     $this->value = array_unique(array_filter($this->value));
-    return SafeMarkup::checkPlain(implode(' ', $this->value));
+    return htmlspecialchars(implode(' ', $this->value), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
   }
 
   /**

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Template/AttributeBoolean.php

@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 
 namespace Drupal\Core\Template;
 
-use Drupal\Component\Utility\SafeMarkup;
-
 /**
  * A class that defines a type of boolean HTML attribute.
  *
@@ -42,7 +40,7 @@ class AttributeBoolean extends AttributeValueBase {
    * Implements the magic __toString() method.
    */
   public function __toString() {
-    return $this->value === FALSE ? '' : SafeMarkup::checkPlain($this->name);
+    return $this->value === FALSE ? '' : htmlspecialchars($this->name, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
   }
 
 }

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Template/AttributeString.php

@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 
 namespace Drupal\Core\Template;
 
-use Drupal\Component\Utility\SafeMarkup;
-
 /**
  * A class that represents most standard HTML attributes.
  *
@@ -30,7 +28,7 @@ class AttributeString extends AttributeValueBase {
    * Implements the magic __toString() method.
    */
   public function __toString() {
-    return SafeMarkup::checkPlain($this->value);
+    return htmlspecialchars($this->value, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
   }
 
 }

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Template/AttributeValueBase.php

@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 
 namespace Drupal\Core\Template;
 
-use Drupal\Component\Utility\SafeMarkup;
-
 /**
  * Defines the base class for an attribute type.
  *
@@ -57,7 +55,7 @@ abstract class AttributeValueBase {
   public function render() {
     $value = (string) $this;
     if (isset($this->value) && static::RENDER_EMPTY_ATTRIBUTE || !empty($value)) {
-      return SafeMarkup::checkPlain($this->name) . '="' . $value . '"';
+      return htmlspecialchars($this->name, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') . '="' . $value . '"';
     }
   }