Escaping review and image comments

Review Request #2708 — Created Nov. 14, 2011 and submitted — Latest diff uploaded

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Due to the html parser, javascript literals with closing script tags (for
instance, 'var foo = "</script>";') cause javascript blocks to be prematurely
terminated. For more information see...
http://www.wwco.com/~wls/blog/2007/04/25/using-script-in-a-javascript-literal/

This is a XSS vector, easily reproduced by making a comment of
"</script><script>alert(document);</script>" (quotes are escaped so examples
like 'alert("hello world");' won't work). Demo...
http://demo.reviewboard.org/r/6347/diff/

This is an issue with multiple comment types...

- Diff Comments
This reproduces in ReviewBoard 1.5 and 1.6.

- Screenshot Comments
Reproduced and fixed this in 1.5. Screenshot comments seem to have changed
quite a bit since then so I'm not sure if it's still an issue, but might as
well be safe.

- Attachment Comments
Iirc I accidently stumbled across this for 1.6 though I might be remembering
wrong. This patch doesn't include a fix for attachment comments, but it should
be a similar change around the 'file_attachment_comments' function in...
  reviewboard/reviews/templatetags/reviewtags.py
  reviewboard/templates/reviews/review_request_box.html

Change can be fetched from...
https://github.com/atagar/ReviewBoard/commit/7539dc1f42155fc499430633e462059412eb1b59
I made and tested this fix in RB 1.5 and 1.6, but I don't have a 1.6.2 instance
around so it would be a good idea to give this a sanity test before merging.
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