Download from
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28589
It is highly recommended you apply this new version as soon as possible.
If you downloaded v4.2 you may see an error due to filename changes - this has been fixed. Please install v4.2.1.This release addresses a vulnerability in the HTML Sanitizer, MS12-007
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-007 and adds full support for .NET 4.0 as well as restoring support for .NET 2.0.
The sanitizer has been changed to remove all CSS it encounters, this new behaviour means that if you were keeping CSS formatting from HTML that is no longer going to be the case.
In addition to the change necessary to correct the vulnerability there are a few new features;
You can now, once again, use the encoder libraries with .NET 2.0. The installer will create directories for each framework version supported, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.5 and .NET 4.0 which contain an optimized version of the encoders for that platform.
- Invalid Unicode no longer throws an exception.
Invalid Unicode characters are now replaced with the Unicode replacement character, U+FFFD (�). Previously, when encoding strings through HtmlEncode, HtmlAttributeEncode, XmlEncode, XmlAttributeEncode or CssEncode invalid Unicode characters would be detected and an exception thrown.
The encoding library now has UrlPathEncode which will encode a string for use as the path part of a URL.
- .NET 4.0 encoder support.
There’s finally an official way to swap AntiXSS into the framework. If you are using .NET 4.0 ensure you are using the .NET 4.0 version of the encoding library and then edit your web.config and add the encoderType attribute to the httpRuntime element; i.e.
<httpRuntime encoderType="Microsoft.Security.Application.AntiXssEncoder, AntiXssLibrary"/>