From 06532a3304ebf50a7370ab1c9449cbf5e08170a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Boren <ryan@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 23:49:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Pass comments through kses.  Props tsimmons. fixes #2130
 #2167

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@3417 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/kses.php | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/kses.php b/wp-includes/kses.php
index d6f5a4c507..bc9d5141e5 100644
--- a/wp-includes/kses.php
+++ b/wp-includes/kses.php
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ function wp_kses_split($string, $allowed_html, $allowed_protocols)
 # matches stray ">" characters.
 ###############################################################################
 {
-	return preg_replace('%(<'.# EITHER: <
+	return preg_replace('%(<!--.*?-->)|(<'.# EITHER: <
 	'[^>]*'.# things that aren't >
 	'(>|$)'.# > or end of string
 	'|>)%e', # OR: just a >
@@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ function wp_kses_split2($string, $allowed_html, $allowed_protocols)
 		return '&gt;';
 	# It matched a ">" character
 
+	if (preg_match('%^<!--.*-->$%', $string))
+		return $string;
+	# Allow HTML comments
+
 	if (!preg_match('%^<\s*(/\s*)?([a-zA-Z0-9]+)([^>]*)>?$%', $string, $matches))
 		return '';
 	# It's seriously malformed