use HTML encoding on JSON return strings ... starting with the GSON implementation
diff --git a/modules/json/src/org/apache/axis2/json/gson/JsonHtmlXssSerializer.java b/modules/json/src/org/apache/axis2/json/gson/JsonHtmlXssSerializer.java
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+
+package org.apache.axis2.json.gson;
+
+import org.owasp.encoder.Encode;
+
+import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
+import com.google.gson.JsonPrimitive;
+import com.google.gson.JsonSerializationContext;
+import com.google.gson.JsonSerializer;
+import java.lang.reflect.Type;
+
+public class JsonHtmlXssSerializer implements JsonSerializer<String> {
+
+ @Override
+ public JsonElement serialize(String src, Type typeOfSrc,
+ JsonSerializationContext context) {
+
+ return new JsonPrimitive(Encode.forHtmlContent(src));
+
+ }
+}
