On Monday, 18 April 2011 at 20:50, tedd wrote: > Daniel et al: > > Sorry -- I'm not making myself clear. > > The form "as-is" produced a javascript alert() and now it doesn't. > > It doesn't make any difference if I use stripslashes() or not, it > still will NOT produce a javascript alert as it used to do. > > Seriously, try this: > > <?php > > $insecure = $_POST['insecure']; > //$insecure = stripslashes($insecure); > ?> > > <h1>tedd's Secure v Insecure form demo</h1> > > <p> > Enter (cut/paste the red) <br/><span class="red"> <script> > alert("Evil Code"); </script></span><br/> in the field below > and see what happens. The red is javascript code. > </p> > > <form method="post" action="index.php"> > <p> > Field: <input type="text" size=60 name="insecure"> > </p> > <p> > <input type=submit value="Submit Post"> > </p> > </form> > > <?php > > if ($insecure != null) > { > echo("<p>This is what you entered:</p>"); > echo("Input: $insecure"); > echo("<br>"); > $insecure = htmlentities($insecure); > echo("Input after htmlentites: $insecure"); > echo("<br>"); > } > ?> > > <?php include('../includes/footer.php'); ?> > > You can un-comment the stripslashes() function and it will still not > produce a javascript alert. Looks like some form of variable tainting. There was a proposal and a patch a while back, but all it did was emit a warning. I've looked at the PHP5 changelog to see if this was added but can't find any reference to it being merged in. This is not a browser change because it's happening before the browser sees the response (try it with curl). -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php