note 69333 added to ref.curl

Hey guys, If you weren't experienced computer people you'd never believe this weirdness.... I couldn't for the life of me post anything with the word 'curl' in it. I discovered this when trying to enter my friend Alex Curley into my contact database, then narrowed the problem down to the string "curl". His email also wouldn't work - rather than the page processing normally, I just get a forbidden 403 error. I thought it might be some weird html entity problem. Googled it, and it got even weirder. http://wordpress.org/support/topic/20758 Apparently this PHP function curl or c-rul can be used in some sort of post data to exploit that is very serious. The quick fix was to ban the string "curl" from any post by returning a 403 error!!! This has terrible consequences for people with the letters curl in their name or email address or website, or curl hair for a living or sell curlers or whatever. You can't even say "curl up" or "curly hair" or "All of them had hair of gold, like their mother, the youngest one in curls". Is it possible to implement a more elegant solution that can determine if it is a malicious attempt or simply the word or letter combination "curl"? Or do I just have to wait until the next php version, if ever, to be able to add my friend to my database?! Yikes! ---- Server IP: 66.207.199.35 Probable Submitter: 24.42.81.187 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/69333 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/69333/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/69333/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/69333/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/69333/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/69333/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/69333/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/69333 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/69333 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php