From f0abc9b7e00f08803bd624e7863aa58e7cdbfc4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Dominik Schilling (ocean90)" <ocean90@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 21:03:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Themes: Improve RegExp pattern for search.

* The replacement of spaces is now done globally.
* The search term is now escaped for RegExp meta characters.

props westonruter for the hint.
fixes #27479.

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@27649 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 src/wp-admin/js/theme.js | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/wp-admin/js/theme.js b/src/wp-admin/js/theme.js
index d5dc9de10d..bb58f52fa5 100644
--- a/src/wp-admin/js/theme.js
+++ b/src/wp-admin/js/theme.js
@@ -179,11 +179,12 @@ themes.Collection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
 		// Start with a full collection
 		this.reset( themes.data.themes, { silent: true } );
 
-		// The RegExp object to match
-		//
+		// Escape the term string for RegExp meta characters
+		term = term.replace( /[-\/\\^$*+?.()|[\]{}]/g, '\\$&' );
+
 		// Consider spaces as word delimiters and match the whole string
 		// so matching terms can be combined
-		term = term.replace( ' ', ')(?=.*' );
+		term = term.replace( / /g, ')(?=.*' );
 		match = new RegExp( '^(?=.*' + term + ').+', 'i' );
 
 		// Find results