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[nycphp-talk] Client vs. Server programming

Keith Casey mailinglists at caseysoftware.com
Thu Sep 21 18:12:41 EDT 2006


On 9/21/06, LK <lk613m at yahoo.com> wrote:
> copying user inputs from the $_POST array back into the HTML for *each* input
> field with <?php echo $_POST[] ?>, not to mention session state and other

And regardless of the validation others have noted, if you're simply
taking user input and dumping it to the screen you're in for a world
of hurt.  Here's a quick sample of some of the trouble you could
cause:  http://seoblackhat.com/2006/09/18/best-xss-ever/

And that's just simple html not causing any problems...

kc

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