security bug in PHP-server-1.1

Niels Berkers niels at quotar.com
Wed Apr 11 11:07:01 PDT 2007


Niels Berkers wrote:
> Jonathan Daugherty wrote:
>> # for those who like to clean incomming content before your server is
>> # hacked. The following code line 216 in common.php
>>
>> This patch will break the server.  (Most notably, it will break OpenID
>> authentication.)  In particular, it will break whenever an input value
>> is url-encoded differently than it will be by htmlentities().
>>
> at leased it is secure now :-(
> 
tested it against livejournal.com and my own testscript ... works fine 
as far as i can see.

htmlentities() maybe.. can use addslashes instead... guess that will 
take out most of the risk -> sql injections

br,


Niels



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