full-disclosure - Critical PHP bug - act ASAP if you are running web with sensitive data

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Date: Wed Mar 29 06:41:24 2006
From: jasper at album.co.nz (Jasper Bryant-Greene)
Subject: Critical PHP bug - act ASAP if you are running
	web with sensitive data

My point is, can you think of a logical reason why html_entity_decode 
would be run on user input? I'm sure some idiot is doing it (and 
therefore this is a security issue, though not exactly critical), but I 
don't think I can think of a reason why it would be done.

Why would you want to decode HTML entities given by a user? The opposite 
(encode their input into HTML entities) is the usual approach...

Jasper

Slythers Bro wrote:
> 
> 
> <?php
>    $host = "127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>";
>    $user = "sqluser";
>    $pass = "sqlpass";
> 
>  .....
> 
>    $foobar=html_entity_decode($_GET['foo']);
>    echo $foobar;
> 
> ?>