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Craft Twig Sandbox

Allows you to easily create a sandboxed Twig environment where you can control what tags, filters, functions, and object methods/properties are allowed

Requirements

Craft Twig Sandbox requires Craft CMS 5.x

Installation

To install Craft Twig Sandbox, follow these steps:

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    cd /path/to/project
   

2. Then tell Composer to require the package:

    composer require nystudio107/craft-twig-sandbox
   

About Craft Twig Sandbox

Rather than just creating a new Twig Environment for the sandbox, Craft Twig Sandbox sub-classes the Craft View class, which has a few benefits:

• You get all of the Craft provided tags, filters, functions, objects, globals, etc. available to you if you want
• Plugin-provided tags, filters, functions, and objects are available if you want
• You get access to the familiar .renderObjectTemplate(), .renderString(), .renderPageTemplate() and .renderTemplate() methods
• All of the normal Craft events and scaffolding related to template rendering are present as well

It also implements an ErrorHandler that sub-classes the Craft ErrorHandler which is used to handle exceptions that happen when rendering Twig templates. This allows it to properly handle and display exceptions such as:

Twig\Sandbox\SecurityNotAllowedFunctionError
Function "dump" is not allowed in "__string_template__b0120324b463b0e0d2c2618b7c5ce3ba" at line 1.

Additionally, if the Craft Closure package is installed, it will automatically be added to the sandbox for use in any of the Twig template rendering functions.

Using Craft Twig Sandbox

In its simplest form, you can create a Twig Sandbox like so:

use nystudio107\crafttwigsandbox\web\SandboxView;

$sandboxView = new SandboxView();

This will create a new SandboxView that works just like the Craft web View class so you can use any of the View render methods for Twig templates:

$result = $sandboxView->renderString();
$result = $sandboxView->renderObjectTemplate();
$result = $sandboxView->renderPageTemplate();
$result = $sandboxView->renderTemplate();

...and they will be rendered using the default BlacklistSecurityPolicy so blacklisted Twig tags, filters, functions, and object methods/properties will not be allowed.

If any tags, filters, functions, or object methods/properties are used that are not allowed by the security policy, a SecurityError exception will be thrown.

N.B.: For performance reasons, you should create a SandboxView once, and use it throughout your application's lifecycle, rather than re-creating it every time you want to render Twig using it.

BlacklistSecurityPolicy

The BlacklistSecurityPolicy is a SecurityPolicy that specifies the Twig tags, filters, functions, and object methods/properties that are not allowed.

It defaults to reasonable subset of blacklisted Twig tags, filters, and functions, but you can customize it as you see fit:

use nystudio107\crafttwigsandbox\twig\BlacklistSecurityPolicy;
use nystudio107\crafttwigsandbox\web\SandboxView;

$securityPolicy = new BlacklistSecurityPolicy([
   'twigTags' => ['import'],
   'twigFilters' => ['base64_decode', 'base64_encode'],
   'twigFunctions' => ['dump'],
]);
$sandboxView = new SandboxView(['securityPolicy' => $securityPolicy]);
$result = $sandboxView->renderString("{{ dump() }}", []);

You can also control what object methods and properties are allowed to be accessed. By default, the BlacklistSecurityPolicy does not restrict access to any object methods or properties.

For example, if you didn't want people to be able to access the password property of the DbConfig object via:

{{ craft.app.config.db.password }}

or

{{ craft.app.getConfig().getDb().password }}

...you would do:

use craft\config\DbConfig;
use nystudio107\crafttwigsandbox\twig\BlacklistSecurityPolicy;
use nystudio107\crafttwigsandbox\web\SandboxView;

$securityPolicy = new BlacklistSecurityPolicy([
   'twigProperties' => [
       DbConfig::class => ['password']
   ],
   'twigMethods' => [
       DbConfig::class => ['getPassword']
   ],
]);
$sandboxView = new SandboxView(['securityPolicy' => $securityPolicy]);
$result = $sandboxView->renderString("{{ craft.app.config.db.password }}", []);

If you don't want any properties or methods to be able to be accessed on a given object, you can pass in a * wildcard:

   'twigProperties' => [
       DbConfig::class => '*'
   ],
   'twigMethods' => [
       DbConfig::class => '*'
   ],

WhitelistSecurityPolicy

The WhitelistSecurityPolicy is a SecurityPolicy that specifies the Twig tags, filters, functions, and object methods/properties that are allowed.

It defaults to reasonable subset of whitelisted Twig tags, filters, functions, and object methods/properties, but you can customize it as you see fit:

use nystudio107\crafttwigsandbox\twig\WhitelistSecurityPolicy;
use nystudio107\crafttwigsandbox\web\SandboxView;

$securityPolicy = new WhitelistSecurityPolicy([
   'twigTags' => ['for', 'if'],
   'twigFilters' => ['replace', 'sort'],
   'twigFunctions' => ['date', 'random'],
]);
$sandboxView = new SandboxView(['securityPolicy' => $securityPolicy]);
$result = $sandboxView->renderString("{{ dump() }}", []);

You can also control what object methods and properties are allowed to be accessed. By default, the WhitelistSecurityPolicy restricts access to all object methods or properties.

That means you must explicitly specify each object property or method.

For example, if you wanted to grant access to:

{{ craft.app.config.general.devMode }}

or

{{ craft.app.getConfig().getGeneral().getDevMode() }}

...you would do:

use craft\config\GeneralConfig;
use craft\services\Config;
use craft\web\Application;
use craft\web\twig\variables\CraftVariable;
use nystudio107\crafttwigsandbox\twig\WhitelistSecurityPolicy;
use nystudio107\crafttwigsandbox\web\SandboxView;

$securityPolicy = new WhitelistSecurityPolicy([
   'twigProperties' => [
       CraftVariable::class => ['app'],
       Application::class => ['config'],
       Config::class => ['general'],
       GeneralConfig::class => ['devMode'],
   ]
   'twigMethods' => [
       Application::class => ['getConfig'],
       Config::class => ['getGeneral'],
   ],
]);
$sandboxView = new SandboxView(['securityPolicy' => $securityPolicy]);
$result = $sandboxView->renderString("{{ craft.app.config.general.devMode }}", []);

If you want all properties or methods to be able to be accessed on a given object, you can pass in a * wildcard:

   'twigProperties' => [
       DbConfig::class => '*'
   ],
   'twigMethods' => [
       DbConfig::class => '*'
   ],

Custom SecurityPolicy

You can also create your own custom SecurityPolicy to use, it just needs to conform to the Twig SecurityPolicyInterface:

use my\custom\SecurityPolicy;
use nystudio107\crafttwigsandbox\web\SandboxView;

$securityPolicy = new SecurityPolicy([
]);
$sandboxView = new SandboxView(['securityPolicy' => $securityPolicy]);
$result = $sandboxView->renderString("{{ dump() }}", []);

Adding a SandbowView via config/app.php

If you want to make a Twig sandbox available globally in your Craft application, you can add the following to your config/app.php:

use craft\config\DbConfig;
use nystudio107\crafttwigsandbox\twig\BlacklistSecurityPolicy;
use nystudio107\crafttwigsandbox\web\SandboxView;

return [
    // ...
    'components' => [
        'sandboxView' => [
            'class' => SandboxView::class,
            'securityPolicy' => new BlacklistSecurityPolicy([
                'twigProperties' => [
                    DbConfig::class => '*'
                ],
                'twigMethods' => [
                    DbConfig::class => '*'
                ],
            ]),
        ],
    ],
];

This will create a globally available component that you can use via:

Craft::$app->sandboxView->renderString('{% set password = craft.app.getConfig().getDb().password("") %}');

You can even globally replace the default Craft view with a SandboxView if you want:

return [
    // ...
    'components' => [
        'view' => [
            'class' => SandboxView::class,
            'securityPolicy' => new BlacklistSecurityPolicy([
                'twigProperties' => [
                    DbConfig::class => '*'
                ],
                'twigMethods' => [
                    DbConfig::class => '*'
                ],
            ]),
        ],
    ],
];

Craft Twig Sandbox Roadmap

Some things to do, and ideas for potential features:

• Initial release

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