Bugtraq: Re: PHP BB bug

[Rich Lafferty <rich () lafferty ca>]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 11:38:56PM -0000, sasan hezarkhani <gootiker () gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
> i dont know if my foundation is acceptable or not but here we go i post it...
>
> when u right an SQL query in the highlight section of the PHPBB u'll get all of the page highlighted
> example :
>
> forums/viewtopic.php?t=[NUMBER HERE]&highlight=Bug,SELECT * FROM $table
It's highlighting "Bug", "Select", "*", "From", and "$table". But "*"
matches everything. Try:

   http://forum.example.com/viewtopic.php?t=[num]&highlight=*

That's exactly how it is intended to work. Not only is it not a security
issue, it's not even a bug.

  -Rich

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