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Re: BB type posting - is this secure?

From "A" <a@a.a>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: BB type posting - is this secure?
Date 2011-12-30 00:14 +0100
Organization B.net Hrvatska d.o.o.
Message-ID <jdis94$3m5$1@gregory.bnet.hr> (permalink)
References <ptqpf75jh2fra5qfu8jhum3bn4ug6r17ot@4ax.com>

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"Michael Joel" <no@please.com> wrote in message
news:ptqpf75jh2fra5qfu8jhum3bn4ug6r17ot@4ax.com...
>I am allowing posts to the page and wanted to see if this is secure.

> data from sql is placed in an array (say $MyArray):
> $MyArray["Post"] = nl2br(stripslashes($MyArray["Post"]));
> $MyArray["Post"] = strip_tags($MyArray["Post"], "<BR>");
> I notice with this text like <script>alert("hi");</script> is rendered
> as literal so no script is actually recognised.

strip_tags($MyArray["Post"], "<BR>");
doesn't really help because it removes only <BR> tags and not other HTML 
tags.

Use htmlspecialchars - it renders all HTML special characters to safe 
variants for displaying.

And before inserting them into database use parametrized query to stop all 
sql injection.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1299182/prepared-parameterized-query-with-pdo



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BB type posting - is this secure? Michael Joel <no@please.com> - 2011-12-29 17:45 -0500
  Re: BB type posting - is this secure? "A" <a@a.a> - 2011-12-30 00:14 +0100
  Re: BB type posting - is this secure? Curtis Dyer <dyer85@gmail.com> - 2011-12-29 23:29 +0000
    Re: BB type posting - is this secure? Michael Joel <no@please.com> - 2011-12-29 23:27 -0500
      Re: BB type posting - is this secure? Michael Joel <no@please.com> - 2011-12-30 00:29 -0500
        Re: BB type posting - is this secure? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-12-30 05:59 -0500
  Re: BB type posting - is this secure? "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2011-12-30 10:59 +0100
    Re: BB type posting - is this secure? Michael Joel <no@please.com> - 2011-12-30 10:01 -0500
      Re: BB type posting - is this secure? Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2011-12-30 19:14 +0100
      Re: BB type posting - is this secure? "A" <a@a.a> - 2011-12-30 21:39 +0100
        Re: BB type posting - is this secure? "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-01-01 19:20 +0100
      Re: BB type posting - is this secure? Curtis Dyer <dyer85@gmail.com> - 2012-01-04 07:24 +0000

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