RE: [PHP] Security Issue

From: Ashley Sheridan > On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 15:00 -0300, Igor Escobar wrote: > >> PHP Injection is the technical name given to a security hole in PHP >> applications. When this gap there is a hacker can do with an external >> code that is interpreted as an inner code as if the code included was >> more a part of the script. > > That data is still coming from somewhere, so is still badly sanitised > data either coming from a form or a URL. You really should go over all > the code to find these and root them out, which is a mammoth task. To > narrow it down, those access logs I mentioned before will help. I think > there are ways you can automatically detect security holes in your > software, but if none of your user data is sanitised correctly, then > virtually everything is a potential security hole. You need to narrow your search down a bit. Are there corrupted files on the server? Who has write privileges for those files and directories? Are they tracked via a content management system? Who last wrote to them? Can you further restrict who is allowed to write into those files and directories? Bob McConnell