bugtraq - Re: PHP XSS exploit in phpinfo()

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Message-ID: <200306042105.15693@danielnaber.de>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 21:05:15 +0200
From: Daniel Naber <daniel.naber@...nline.de>
To: silent needle <silentneedle@...mail.com>
Subject: Re: PHP XSS exploit in phpinfo()


On Tuesday 03 June 2003 15:30, silent needle wrote:

> A: BACKGROUND(from php.net)
> int phpinfo ( [int what])
> Outputs a large amount of information about the current state of PHP.

And because of that amount of information it's a security issue if 
phpinfo() is publically available at all, not just because you can do XSS 
with it. (Of course it should be fixed anyway.)

Regards
 Daniel

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