Re: CVE id request: php-xajax

[Nico Golde <oss-security+ml () ngolde de>]

Hi,
* Steven M. Christey <coley () linus mitre org> [2008-12-17 19:28]:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Nico Golde wrote:
>
> > > Afaik you can use & to specify values like ../foo.php&value=bar
> > > Thus the patch looked incomplete to me and should be extended to escape & as
> > > well.
> >
> > I see no problem with specifying GET variables here unless
> > this is some kind of CSRF which I don't see in this case.
>
> If there's CSRF then that would be a separate issue.
>
> If ";" is also allowed then there might be some possibilities for odd
> entity encodings, but I don't know if that would translate directly into
> XSS.  A simple, likely-incorrect example might be "&lt;" which would
> decode into "<" but the browser would treat it as a literal "<" instead of
> the start of a tag.

Yes but this would be a bug, no security issue by itself.

Cheers
Nico
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