1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/src/alert.cpp b/src/alert.cpp
index b900fe41e5..7f7e59ee10 100644
--- a/src/alert.cpp
+++ b/src/alert.cpp
@@ -241,15 +241,7 @@ bool CAlert::ProcessAlert(bool fThread)
                 // be safe we first strip anything not in safeChars, then add single quotes around
                 // the whole string before passing it to the shell:
                 std::string singleQuote("'");
-                // safeChars chosen to allow simple messages/URLs/email addresses, but avoid anything
-                // even possibly remotely dangerous like & or >
-                std::string safeChars("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890 .,;_/:?@");
-                std::string safeStatus;
-                for (std::string::size_type i = 0; i < strStatusBar.size(); i++)
-                {
-                    if (safeChars.find(strStatusBar[i]) != std::string::npos)
-                        safeStatus.push_back(strStatusBar[i]);
-                }
+                std::string safeStatus = SanitizeString(strStatusBar);
                 safeStatus = singleQuote+safeStatus+singleQuote;
                 boost::replace_all(strCmd, "%s", safeStatus);