From 7a8ef267cadc74bc9350827d41a5a2fd0e675bec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Manny Dinssa <44172848+Dinssa@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:53:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Remove any characters that are not alphanumeric, spaces,
 hyphens, underscores, apostrophes, or ampersands.

---
 app/helpers/application_helper.rb | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
index 2a91006b0..ae682e1fc 100644
--- a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ module ApplicationHelper
   def sanitise_characters(string)
     return string unless string
 
-    string.tr("'", "’").tr("&", "＆")
+    string.gsub(/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s\-\_\'\&]/, '').tr("'", "’").tr("&", "＆")
   end
 
 private