diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f2a52e090..b1e692ee9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,11 +20,14 @@
 1. [](#new)
     * Added `Deprecated` tab to DebugBar to catch future incompatibilities with later Grav versions
     * Added deprecation notices for features which will be removed in Grav 2.0
+    * Added `Utils::detectXssFromArray()` and `Utils::detectXss()` methods
+    * Added `onHttpPostFilter` event to allow plugins to globally clean up XSS in the forms and tasks
 1. [](#bugfix)
     * Allow `$page->slug()` to be called before `$page->init()` without breaking the page
     * Fix for `Page::translatedLanguages()` to use routes always [#2163](https://github.com/getgrav/grav/issues/2163)
     * Fixed `nicetime()` twig function
     * Allow twig tags `{% script %}`, `{% style %}` and `{% switch %}` to be placed outside of blocks
+    * Session expires in 30 mins independent from config settings [login#178](https://github.com/getgrav/grav-plugin-login/issues/178)
 
 # v1.5.1
 ## 08/23/2018
diff --git a/system/src/Grav/Common/Uri.php b/system/src/Grav/Common/Uri.php
index 35e9d3b3f..9ce2d423d 100644
--- a/system/src/Grav/Common/Uri.php
+++ b/system/src/Grav/Common/Uri.php
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ use Grav\Common\Page\Pages;
 use Grav\Framework\Route\RouteFactory;
 use Grav\Framework\Uri\UriFactory;
 use Grav\Framework\Uri\UriPartsFilter;
+use RocketTheme\Toolbox\Event\Event;
 
 class Uri
 {
@@ -1284,6 +1285,9 @@ class Uri
             } elseif (!empty($_POST)) {
                 $this->post = (array)$_POST;
             }
+
+            $event = new Event(['post' => &$this->post]);
+            Grav::instance()->fireEvent('onHttpPostFilter', $event);
         }
 
         if ($this->post && null !== $element) {
diff --git a/system/src/Grav/Common/Utils.php b/system/src/Grav/Common/Utils.php
index 772702276..09ebf45eb 100644
--- a/system/src/Grav/Common/Utils.php
+++ b/system/src/Grav/Common/Utils.php
@@ -253,6 +253,90 @@ abstract class Utils
         return $date_formats;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @param array $array      Array such as $_POST or $_GET
+     * @param string $prefix    Prefix for returned values.
+     * @return array            Returns flatten list of potentially dangerous input values, such as 'data.content'.
+     */
+    public static function detectXssFromArray(array $array, $prefix = '')
+    {
+        $list = [];
+
+        foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
+            if (\is_array($value)) {
+                $list[] = static::detectXssFromArray($value, $prefix . $key . '.');
+            }
+            if (static::detectXss($value)) {
+                $list[] = [$prefix . $key];
+            }
+        }
+
+        return array_merge(...$list);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Determine if string potentially has a XSS attack. This simple function does not catch all XSS and it is likely to
+     * return false positives because of it tags all potentially dangerous HTML tags and attributes without looking into
+     * their content.
+     *
+     * @param string $string The string to run XSS detection logic on
+     * @return boolean       True if the given `$string` may contain XSS, false otherwise.
+     *
+     * Copies the code from: https://github.com/symphonycms/xssfilter/blob/master/extension.driver.php#L138
+     */
+    public static function detectXss($string)
+    {
+        // Skip any null or non string values
+        if (null === $string || !\is_string($string) || empty($string)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        // Keep a copy of the original string before cleaning up
+        $orig = $string;
+
+        // URL decode
+        $string = urldecode($string);
+
+        // Convert Hexadecimals
+        $string = (string)preg_replace_callback('!(&#|\\\)[xX]([0-9a-fA-F]+);?!u', function($m) {
+            return \chr(hexdec($m[2]));
+        }, $string);
+
+        // Clean up entities
+        $string = preg_replace('!(&#0+[0-9]+)!u','$1;', $string);
+
+        // Decode entities
+        $string = html_entity_decode($string, ENT_NOQUOTES, 'UTF-8');
+
+        // Strip whitespace characters
+        $string = preg_replace('!\s!u','', $string);
+
+        // Set the patterns we'll test against
+        $patterns = [
+            // Match any attribute starting with "on" or xmlns
+            '#(<[^>]+[\x00-\x20\"\'\/])(on|xmlns)[^>]*>?#iUu',
+
+            // Match javascript:, livescript:, vbscript:, mocha:, feed: and data: protocols
+            '!((java|live|vb)script|mocha|feed|data):(\w)*!iUu',
+
+            // Match -moz-bindings
+            '#-moz-binding[\x00-\x20]*:#u',
+
+            // Match style attributes
+            '#(<[^>]+[\x00-\x20\"\'\/])style=[^>]*>?#iUu',
+
+            // Match potentially dangerous tags
+            '#</*(applet|meta|xml|blink|link|style|script|embed|object|iframe|frame|frameset|ilayer|layer|bgsound|title|base)[^>]*>?#ui'
+        ];
+
+        foreach ($patterns as $pattern) {
+            // Test both the original string and clean string
+            if (preg_match($pattern, $string) || preg_match($pattern, $orig)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
     /**
      * Truncate text by number of characters but can cut off words.
      *
diff --git a/system/src/Grav/Framework/Session/Session.php b/system/src/Grav/Framework/Session/Session.php
index e7c6f1fce..e66c211a9 100644
--- a/system/src/Grav/Framework/Session/Session.php
+++ b/system/src/Grav/Framework/Session/Session.php
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ namespace Grav\Framework\Session;
  */
 class Session implements SessionInterface
 {
+    protected $options;
+
     /**
      * @var bool
      */
@@ -178,7 +180,10 @@ class Session implements SessionInterface
             unset($_COOKIE[session_name()]);
         }
 
-        $options = $readonly ? ['read_and_close' => '1'] : [];
+        $options = $this->options;
+        if ($readonly) {
+            $options['read_and_close'] = '1';
+        }
 
         $success = @session_start($options);
         if (!$success) {
@@ -332,6 +337,7 @@ class Session implements SessionInterface
             }
         }
 
+        $this->options[$key] = $value;
         ini_set($key, $value);
     }
 }