fix walk recursive & field definitions

backend/src/helpers/walkRecursive.ts

@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ function walkRecursive(data, fields, fieldName, callback, _key?) {
   if (!Array.isArray(fields)) {
     throw new Error('please provide an fields array for the walkRecursive helper')
   }
-  if (data && typeof data === 'string' && fields.includes(_key)) {
+  // console.log(_key)
-    // well we found what we searched for, lets replace the value with our callback result
+  const fieldDef = fields.find((f) => f.field === _key)
-    const key = _key.split('!')
+  if (data && typeof data === 'string' && fieldDef) {
-    if (key.length === 1 || key[1] !== fieldName) data = callback(data, key[0])
+    if (!fieldDef.excludes?.includes(fieldName)) data = callback(data, _key)
   } else if (data && Array.isArray(data)) {
     // go into the rabbit hole and dig through that array
     data.forEach((res, index) => {

backend/src/middleware/xssMiddleware.ts

@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ import { cleanHtml } from '../middleware/helpers/cleanHtml'
 
 // exclamation mark separetes field names, that should not be sanitized
 const fields = [
-  'content!message',
+  { field: 'content', excludes: ['message'] },
-  'contentExcerpt',
+  { field: 'contentExcerpt' },
-  'reasonDescription',
+  { field: 'reasonDescription' },
-  'description!embed',
+  { field: 'description', excludes: ['embed'] },
-  'descriptionExcerpt',
+  { field: 'descriptionExcerpt' },
 ]
 
 export default {