Fixed the regular expression

joomla · Jul 29, 2016 · 883921e · 883921e
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commit 883921e
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/plugins/content/emailcloak/emailcloak.php b/plugins/content/emailcloak/emailcloak.php
@@ -479,8 +479,10 @@ protected function _cloak(&$text, &$params)
 			$text = substr_replace($text, $replacement, $regs[0][1], strlen($regs[0][0]));
 		}
 
-		// Search for plain text email@example.org
-		$pattern = '~' . $searchEmail . '([^a-z0-9]|$)~i';
+		// Search for plain text email addresses, such as email@example.org but not within HTML tags:
+		// <img src="..." title="email@example.org"> or <input type="text" placeholder="email@example.org">
+		// The negative lookahead '(?![^<]*>)' is used to exclude this kind occurrences
+		$pattern = '~(?![^<>]*>)' . $searchEmail . '~i';
 
 		while (preg_match($pattern, $text, $regs, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE))
 		{