Hello David, I'm not a PHP god but I would never ever do such things.I can't even imagine what can be the reason of passing an SQL query through a form... -- With best regards from Ukraine, Andre Skype: Francophile; Wlm&MSN: arthaelon @ yandex.ru; Jabber: arthaelon @ jabber.org Yahoo! messenger: andre.polykanine; ICQ: 191749952 Twitter: m_elensule ----- Original message ----- From: David Stoltz <Dstoltz@xxxxxxx> To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 11:54:56 PM Subject: Security/Development Question Hi folks, This isn't really a PHP question per se, but could apply to any language... I have a public facing web server, which we have a software component that helps protect us from SQL Injection, and the like. We recently have added a very small web application that is vendor supported. They said it's not working, so I investigated. I found that our software protection was blocking their pages because they are actually passing entire SQL queries in their form POSTs. Now, the app is SSL protected, and they claim the queries are not executed - only inserted into the database to be used later. They also said it's protected by the ASP.NET framework authentication....not sure about any of that. My concern is passing SQL queries in this way is not best practice - am I wrong? Please let me know how you would react to this? See below for the stuff they are passing in the POST (obvious things like table names have been changed): /wEWBQLciq6UBwLEhISFCwLa2223bD3wK3+56LBAKc37iSDEsHMFjpB6o1vHld19wT+Tt3sY 8E&CRITICAL_RESULT&on&Declare @critical varchar (40) set @critical = (select top 1 code from table where id = 'clr7' and thename = 'critical') sELECT OPR_SECD.REC USER_REC_NO, RESULT.*, (SELECT RESULT_DESC FROM table WHERE code = RESULT.RES_MSTR_CODE) [DESC], [ORDER].*, (SELECT VALUE FROM table WHERE this_CODE = 'Email' AND USER_REC = OPR_SECD.RECNUM) MBMD_EMAIL, OPR_SECD.OPR_INITIAL FROM RESULTING LEFT JOIN [ORDER] ON RESULTING.ORDER_REC = [ORDERBY].RECNUM LEFT JOIN OPR_SECD ON [ORDER].DR_CODE = OPR_SECD.XREF_CODE where (RESULT.FLAG_TEXT) = @critical AND RESULT.REC = @ID&Save -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
