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Re: PHP XSS exploit in phpinfo()

From: Daniel Naber (daniel.nabert-online.de)
Date: Wed Jun 04 2003 - 14:05:15 CDT


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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