Re: [Full-disclosure] Critical PHP bug - act ASAP if you are running web with sensitive data
I very much doubt there are many applications at all containing code
like this. It is illogical to be decoding html entities from user
input. Therefore I would not call this a "very serious problem" and
certainly not a critical bug.
Somewhat I agree. I suspected this may affect more functions that only
this one and was very alarmed. I never digged around in PHP source and
was not able to verify it fast. So if PHP developer says, it is affects
only on function, this is fine.
There are application which are known to use it. Like
http://www.phpmyfaq.de/, so I attacker may use social engineering easily
to gain access to such feature.
I am security auditor and 90% cases I get to goal combining using bunch of
small, useless problems. Sorry if you do not see problem.
EOD :).