diff --git a/plugins/auth_ldap/init.php b/plugins/auth_ldap/init.php
index 588b910..528da9b 100644
--- a/plugins/auth_ldap/init.php
+++ b/plugins/auth_ldap/init.php
@@ -104,6 +104,82 @@ private function _logAttempt($username, $result) {
         );
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @param string $subject The subject string
+     * @param string $ignore Set of characters to leave untouched
+     * @param int $flags Any combination of LDAP_ESCAPE_* flags to indicate the
+     *                   set(s) of characters to escape.
+     * @return string
+     */
+    function ldap_escape($subject, $ignore = '', $flags = 0)
+    {
+        if (!function_exists('ldap_escape')) {
+            define('LDAP_ESCAPE_FILTER', 0x01);
+            define('LDAP_ESCAPE_DN',     0x02);
+            
+            static $charMaps = array(
+                LDAP_ESCAPE_FILTER => array('\\', '*', '(', ')', "\x00"),
+                LDAP_ESCAPE_DN     => array('\\', ',', '=', '+', '<', '>', ';', '"', '#'),
+            );
+
+            // Pre-process the char maps on first call
+            if (!isset($charMaps[0])) {
+                $charMaps[0] = array();
+                for ($i = 0; $i < 256; $i++) {
+                    $charMaps[0][chr($i)] = sprintf('\\%02x', $i);;
+                }
+
+                for ($i = 0, $l = count($charMaps[LDAP_ESCAPE_FILTER]); $i < $l; $i++) {
+                    $chr = $charMaps[LDAP_ESCAPE_FILTER][$i];
+                    unset($charMaps[LDAP_ESCAPE_FILTER][$i]);
+                    $charMaps[LDAP_ESCAPE_FILTER][$chr] = $charMaps[0][$chr];
+                }
+
+                for ($i = 0, $l = count($charMaps[LDAP_ESCAPE_DN]); $i < $l; $i++) {
+                    $chr = $charMaps[LDAP_ESCAPE_DN][$i];
+                    unset($charMaps[LDAP_ESCAPE_DN][$i]);
+                    $charMaps[LDAP_ESCAPE_DN][$chr] = $charMaps[0][$chr];
+                }
+            }
+
+            // Create the base char map to escape
+            $flags = (int)$flags;
+            $charMap = array();
+            if ($flags & LDAP_ESCAPE_FILTER) {
+                $charMap += $charMaps[LDAP_ESCAPE_FILTER];
+            }
+            if ($flags & LDAP_ESCAPE_DN) {
+                $charMap += $charMaps[LDAP_ESCAPE_DN];
+            }
+            if (!$charMap) {
+                $charMap = $charMaps[0];
+            }
+
+            // Remove any chars to ignore from the list
+            $ignore = (string)$ignore;
+            for ($i = 0, $l = strlen($ignore); $i < $l; $i++) {
+                unset($charMap[$ignore[$i]]);
+            }
+
+            // Do the main replacement
+            $result = strtr($subject, $charMap);
+
+            // Encode leading/trailing spaces if LDAP_ESCAPE_DN is passed
+            if ($flags & LDAP_ESCAPE_DN) {
+                if ($result[0] === ' ') {
+                    $result = '\\20' . substr($result, 1);
+                }
+                if ($result[strlen($result) - 1] === ' ') {
+                    $result = substr($result, 0, -1) . '\\20';
+                }
+            }
+
+            return $result;
+        }else{
+            return ldap_escape($subject, $ignore, $flags);
+        }    
+    }
+        
     /**
      * Finds client's IP address
      * @return string
@@ -256,7 +332,7 @@ function authenticate($login, $password) {
               } */
 
             //Searching for user
-            $filterObj = str_replace('???', $login, LDAP_AUTH_SEARCHFILTER);
+            $filterObj = str_replace('???', ldap_escape($login), LDAP_AUTH_SEARCHFILTER);
             $searchResults = @ldap_search($ldapConn, $this->_baseDN, $filterObj, array('displayName', 'title', 'sAMAccountName'), 0, 0, 0);
             if ($searchResults === FALSE) {
                 $this->_log('LDAP Search Failed on base \'' . $this->_baseDN . '\' for \'' . $filterObj . '\'', E_USER_ERROR);