Re: IndonesiaHack Advisory HTML injection in PHP Fusebox
This isn't a vulnerability. The framework is doing what it is supposed to, and
it isn't the job of the framework to place arbitrary restrictions on what the
user can pass into it. For example, the CF version of Fusebox has also had this
"vulnerability" pointed out. But CF already has a mechanism to eliminate XSS
attacks through the use of the "scriptProtect" attribute of the cfapplication
tag. So if the core file were to incorporate some sort of XSS scrubbing, it
would have to be disabled by default so as not to duplicate what the web
application server is already doing. Which would mean the developer would have
to turn it on. Which would mean that the developer already was aware of the
danger of XSS and the need to prevent it. Which would make the addition of
framework-based scrubbing moot. The framework is there to ease development, not
stop the developer from making every kind of mistake.