Bugtraq: Re: php create_function commond injection vulnerability

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On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, lmfao () hotmail com wrote:

> Are you kidding ?
>
> As the PHP manual said "if you use double quotes there will be a need to escape the variable names".
>
> In your example you use a function with double quotes, without escaping the variable $sort_by, so
> this is not a PHP vulnerability, but a development one.
>
> For this time, don't blame PHP, blame developers.
> It's like if I was using mysql_query() without escaping user's inputs...an sql injection, not a PHP vuln ;)
To be fair, this kind of api is obviously a disaster waiting to happen.

Use an array to express an array of arguments? No, we'll just use 
concatenated strings again, that never caused any problems with sql... I 
wonder why all other languages have that strange 'prepared statements' 
format, and they never get the sql injection bugs. It's unfair!
Anyone up for a bet when PHP will add some more 'magic_quotes' to fix 
this mistake?