Manipulation: Avoid concatenating strings in buildFragment

Concatenating HTML strings in buildFragment is a possible security risk as it creates an opportunity of escaping the concatenated wrapper. It also makes it impossible to support secure HTML wrappers like [trusted types](https://web.dev/trusted-types/). It's safer to create wrapper elements using `document.createElement` & `appendChild`. The previous way was needed in jQuery <4 because IE <10 doesn't accept table parts set via `innerHTML`, even if the element which contents are set is a proper table element, e.g.: ```js tr.innerHTML = "<td></td>"; ``` The whole structure needs to be passed in one HTML string. jQuery 4 drops support for IE <11 so this is no longer an issue; in older version we'd have to duplicate the code paths. IE <10 needed to have `<option>` elements wrapped in `<select multiple="multiple">` but we no longer need that on master which makes the `document.createElement` way shorter as we don't have to call `setAttribute`. All these improvements, apart from making logic more secure, decrease the gzipped size by 58 bytes. Closes gh-4724 Ref gh-4409 Ref angular/angular.js#17028 Co-authored-by: Richard Gibson <richard.gibson@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/src/manipulation/buildFragment.js b/src/manipulation/buildFragment.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import jQuery from "../core.js";
 import toType from "../core/toType.js";
 import isAttached from "../core/isAttached.js";
+import arr from "../var/arr.js";
 import rtagName from "./var/rtagName.js";
 import rscriptType from "./var/rscriptType.js";
 import wrapMap from "./wrapMap.js";
@@ -35,15 +36,16 @@ function buildFragment( elems, context, scripts, selection, ignored ) {
 
 				// Deserialize a standard representation
 				tag = ( rtagName.exec( elem ) || [ "", "" ] )[ 1 ].toLowerCase();
-				wrap = wrapMap[ tag ] || wrapMap._default;
-				tmp.innerHTML = wrap[ 1 ] + jQuery.htmlPrefilter( elem ) + wrap[ 2 ];
+				wrap = wrapMap[ tag ] || arr;
 
-				// Descend through wrappers to the right content
-				j = wrap[ 0 ];
-				while ( j-- ) {
-					tmp = tmp.lastChild;
+				// Create wrappers & descend into them.
+				j = wrap.length;
+				while ( --j > -1 ) {
+					tmp = tmp.appendChild( context.createElement( wrap[ j ] ) );
 				}
 
+				tmp.innerHTML = jQuery.htmlPrefilter( elem );
+
 				jQuery.merge( nodes, tmp.childNodes );
 
 				// Remember the top-level container

diff --git a/src/manipulation/wrapMap.js b/src/manipulation/wrapMap.js
@@ -1,17 +1,14 @@
-// We have to close these tags to support XHTML (#13200)
 var wrapMap = {
 
 	// Table parts need to be wrapped with `<table>` or they're
 	// stripped to their contents when put in a div.
 	// XHTML parsers do not magically insert elements in the
 	// same way that tag soup parsers do, so we cannot shorten
 	// this by omitting <tbody> or other required elements.
-	thead: [ 1, "<table>", "</table>" ],
-	col: [ 2, "<table><colgroup>", "</colgroup></table>" ],
-	tr: [ 2, "<table><tbody>", "</tbody></table>" ],
-	td: [ 3, "<table><tbody><tr>", "</tr></tbody></table>" ],
-
-	_default: [ 0, "", "" ]
+	thead: [ "table" ],
+	col: [ "colgroup", "table" ],
+	tr: [ "tbody", "table" ],
+	td: [ "tr", "tbody", "table" ]
 };
 
 wrapMap.tbody = wrapMap.tfoot = wrapMap.colgroup = wrapMap.caption = wrapMap.thead;

diff --git a/test/unit/manipulation.js b/test/unit/manipulation.js
@@ -2969,3 +2969,14 @@ QUnit.test( "Sanitized HTML doesn't get unsanitized", function( assert ) {
 		test( "<noembed><noembed/><img src=url404 onerror=xss(12)>" );
 	}
 } );
+
+QUnit.test( "Works with invalid attempts to close the table wrapper", function( assert ) {
+	assert.expect( 3 );
+
+	// This test case attempts to close the tags which wrap input
+	// based on matching done in wrapMap which should be ignored.
+	var elem = jQuery( "<td></td></tr></tbody></table><td></td>" );
+	assert.strictEqual( elem.length, 2, "Two elements created" );
+	assert.strictEqual( elem[ 0 ].nodeName.toLowerCase(), "td", "First element is td" );
+	assert.strictEqual( elem[ 1 ].nodeName.toLowerCase(), "td", "Second element is td" );
+} );