note 48065 deleted from security.database.sql-injection by bjori

From: Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:04:37 +0000
Subject: note 48065 deleted from security.database.sql-injection by bjori
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Note Submitter: Jones at example dot com ---- I use the following funktion to avoid such things: <?php function prepareSQL($queryString, $paramArr) { foreach (array_keys($paramArr) as $paramName) { if (is_int($paramArr[$paramName])) { $paramArr[$paramName] = (int)$paramArr[$paramName]; } elseif (is_numeric($paramArr[$paramName])) { $paramArr[$paramName] = (float)$paramArr[$paramName]; } elseif (($paramArr[$paramName] != 'NULL') and ($paramArr[$paramName] != 'NOT NULL')) { $paramArr[$paramName] = mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($paramArr[$paramName])); $paramArr[$paramName] = '\''.$paramArr[$paramName].'\''; } } return preg_replace('/\{(.*?)\}/ei','$paramArr[\'$1\']', $queryString); } $sqlQuery = 'SELECT col1, col2 FROM tab1 WHERE col1 = {1} AND col3 = {2} LIMIT {3}'; $stm = mysql_query(prepareSQL($sqlQuery, array('username', 24.3, 20); ?> So everything that's not NULL, NOT NULL, an integer or a float/double will be escaped with MySQL's mysql_real_escape_string and putted into ' A problem is if e.g. an user gives an "hacked" variable for the LIMIT-Clause - than the function whould return something like this SELECT .... LIMIT '0; DELETE FROM users' So mysql whould produce an error - but better than deleting the users table ;)

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