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Re: Javascript injection

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On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 22:58:08 -0700 (PDT),
bit-naughty@hotmail.com wrote:

>If I have a "forum" type of site, where stuff is being posted, and stored in the backend (in a MySQL database, using PHP), say,....can anyone type in Javascript into the post to accomplish naughty things? What's the most nefarious thing anyone can do? All I can think of is that someone would deface the page somehow, that *that* post is on, which, really, I can't see the point of..... Anything else?
>...and how do I protect against it? (the post will probably be displayed inside a DIV on the page, I think....)

I would not even allow ordinary users to enter HTML tags, i.e.
have them filtered out. This, of course, includes <script ...>
tags, so users cannot inject any script.

Hans-Georg

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Javascript injection bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-08-28 22:58 -0700
  Re: Javascript injection "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-08-29 11:27 +0200
  Re: Javascript injection Hans-Georg Michna <hans-georgNoEmailPlease@michna.com> - 2016-08-29 15:58 +0200
    Re: Javascript injection "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-08-29 17:10 +0200
      Re: Javascript injection Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-08-30 16:35 -0300
        Re: Javascript injection "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-08-31 10:25 +0200
          Re: Javascript injection "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-08-31 12:43 +0200

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