[1.8.x] Added safety to URL decoding in is_safe_url() on Python 2

The errors='replace' parameter to force_text altered the URL before checking
it, which wasn't considered sane. Refs 24fc935218 and ada7a4aef.
Backport of 552f03869e from master.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/django/utils/http.py b/django/utils/http.py
index 68f77fba5e..b70720d844 100644
--- a/django/utils/http.py
+++ b/django/utils/http.py
@@ -278,7 +278,10 @@ def is_safe_url(url, host=None):
     if not url:
         return False
     if six.PY2:
-        url = force_text(url, errors='replace')
+        try:
+            url = force_text(url)
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            return False
     # Chrome treats \ completely as / in paths but it could be part of some
     # basic auth credentials so we need to check both URLs.
     return _is_safe_url(url, host) and _is_safe_url(url.replace('\\', '/'), host)