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constraints/Traverse
constraints/CssColor
constraints/Cascade
constraints/NoSuspiciousCharacters

The Validator is designed to validate objects against *constraints*.
In real life, a constraint could be: "The cake must not be burned". In
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NoSuspiciousCharacters
======================

.. versionadded:: 6.3

The ``NoSuspiciousCharacters`` constraint was introduced in Symfony 6.3.

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This is a comment, and therefore not rendered on the website, am I correct @wouterj @javiereguiluz ?

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I hope so! I was following https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#block-quotes

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What Oskar meant is that this content is a comment that won't be rendered on symfony.com. I've reworded it a bit to add it to the normal text so people can read it.


Because Unicode contains such a large number of characters and incorporates
the varied writing systems of the world, incorrect usage can expose programs
or systems to possible security attacks.

`Unicode® Technical Standard #39`_

"symfony.com" and "ѕymfony.com" look similar, but the latter actually starts with a
`cyrillic small letter dze`_. It could make a user think they'll navigate to Symfony's
website, whereas it would be somewhere else.
This is a kind of `spoofing attack`_ (called "IDN homograph attack"). It tries to
identify something as something else to exploit the resulting confusion.
This is why it is recommended to check user-submitted, public-facing identifiers for
suspicious characters in order to prevent such attacks.

This constraint ensures strings or :phpclass:`Stringable`s do not include any
suspicious characters. As it leverages PHP's :phpclass:`Spoofchecker`, the intl
extension must be enabled to use it.

========== ===================================================================
Applies to :ref:`property or method <validation-property-target>`
Class :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Validator\\Constraints\\NoSuspiciousCharacters`
Validator :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Validator\\Constraints\\NoSuspiciousCharactersValidator`
========== ===================================================================

Basic Usage
-----------

The following constraint will ensures a username cannot be spoofed by using many
detection mechanisms:

.. configuration-block::

.. code-block:: php-attributes

// src/Entity/User.php
namespace App\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class User
{
#[Assert\NoSuspiciousCharacters]
private string $username;
}

.. code-block:: yaml

# config/validator/validation.yaml
App\Entity\User:
properties:
username:
- NoSuspiciousCharacters: ~

.. code-block:: xml

<!-- config/validator/validation.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<constraint-mapping xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping https://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping/constraint-mapping-1.0.xsd">

<class name="App\Entity\User">
<property name="username">
<constraint name="NoSuspiciousCharacters"/>
</property>
</class>
</constraint-mapping>

.. code-block:: php

// src/Entity/User.php
namespace App\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata;

class User
{
public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata)
{
$metadata->addPropertyConstraint('username', new Assert\NoSuspiciousCharacters());
}
}

.. include:: /reference/constraints/_empty-values-are-valid.rst.inc

Options
-------

``checks``
~~~~~~~~~~

**type**: ``integer`` **default**: all

This option is a bitmask of the checks you want to perform on the string:

* ``NoSuspiciousCharacters::CHECK_INVISIBLE`` checks for the presence of invisible characters such as zero-width spaces, or character sequences that are likely not to display, such as multiple occurrences of the same non-spacing mark.
* ``NoSuspiciousCharacters::CHECK_MIXED_NUMBERS`` (usable with ICU 58 or higher) checks for numbers from different numbering systems.
* ``NoSuspiciousCharacters::CHECK_HIDDEN_OVERLAY`` (usable with ICU 62 or higher) checks for combining characters hidden in their preceding one.

You can also configure additional requirements using :ref:`locales <locales>` and
:ref:`restrictionLevel <restrictionlevel>`.

``locales``
~~~~~~~~~~~

**type**: ``array`` **default**: :ref:`framework.enabled_locales <reference-enabled-locales>`

Restrict the string's characters to those normally used with the associated languages.

For example, the character "π" would be considered suspicious if you restricted the
locale to "English", because the Greek script is not associated with it.

Passing an empty array, or configuring :ref:`restrictionLevel <restrictionlevel>` to
``NoSuspiciousCharacters::RESTRICTION_LEVEL_NONE`` will disable this requirement.

``restrictionLevel``
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

**type**: ``integer`` **default**: ``NoSuspiciousCharacters::RESTRICTION_LEVEL_MODERATE`` on ICU >= 58, otherwise ``NoSuspiciousCharacters::RESTRICTION_LEVEL_SINGLE_SCRIPT``

Configures the set of acceptable characters for the validated string through a
specified "level":

* ``NoSuspiciousCharacters::RESTRICTION_LEVEL_MINIMAL`` requires the string's characters to match :ref:`the configured locales <locales>`'.
* ``NoSuspiciousCharacters::RESTRICTION_LEVEL_MODERATE`` also requires the string to be `covered`_ by Latin and any one other `Recommended`_ or `Limited Use`_ script, except Cyrillic, Greek, and Cherokee.
* ``NoSuspiciousCharacters::RESTRICTION_LEVEL_HIGH`` (usable with ICU 58 or higher) also requires the string to be `covered`_ by any of the following sets of scripts:

* Latin + Han + Bopomofo (or equivalently: Latn + Hanb)
* Latin + Han + Hiragana + Katakana (or equivalently: Latn + Jpan)
* Latin + Han + Hangul (or equivalently: Latn + Kore)
* ``NoSuspiciousCharacters::RESTRICTION_LEVEL_SINGLE_SCRIPT`` also requires the string to be `single-script`_.
* ``NoSuspiciousCharacters::RESTRICTION_LEVEL_ASCII`` (usable with ICU 58 or higher) also requires the string's characters to be in the ASCII range.

You can accept all characters by setting this option to
``NoSuspiciousCharacters::RESTRICTION_LEVEL_NONE``.

.. include:: /reference/constraints/_groups-option.rst.inc

.. include:: /reference/constraints/_payload-option.rst.inc

.. _`Unicode® Technical Standard #39`: https://unicode.org/reports/tr39/
.. _`cyrillic small letter dze`: https://graphemica.com/%D1%95
.. _`spoofing attack`: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoofing_attack
.. _`single-script`: https://unicode.org/reports/tr39/#def-single-script
.. _`covered`: https://unicode.org/reports/tr39/#def-cover
.. _`Recommended`: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/#Table_Recommended_Scripts
.. _`Limited Use`: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/#Table_Limited_Use_Scripts
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* :doc:`UserPassword </reference/constraints/UserPassword>`
* :doc:`NotCompromisedPassword </reference/constraints/NotCompromisedPassword>`
* :doc:`CssColor </reference/constraints/CssColor>`
* :doc:`NoSuspiciousCharacters </reference/constraints/NoSuspiciousCharacters>`

Comparison Constraints
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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