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Bug #45515 addslashes() function modifies a $_POST variable even if you dont want
Submitted: 2008-07-14 22:46 UTC Modified: 2008-07-14 23:41 UTC
From: andresipm at yahoo dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Variables related
PHP Version: 5.2.6 OS: windows XP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-07-14 22:46 UTC] andresipm at yahoo dot com 
Description:
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In the form enter a string with a quote anywhere. Clic several times the submit button.

In the next code, it is supposed that the user will never excecute the addslashes() function inside the if statement.

However, the value of the $_POST variable is changed and added slashes!!!!

Reproduce code:
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<?php
if( false ){
    $sss=	$_POST["nameP"];
	$sss= addslashes( $sss );
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>nooh shit</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
  Enter the string "any'string" and send:<input name="nameP" type="text" value="<?=$_POST["nameP"]?>" />
  <input type="submit" name="enviar" id="enviar" value="Send" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

Expected result:
----------------
The expected result is that the $_POST variable keep its value:

original string: any'string
several submits later: any'string



Actual result:
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The actual result is something like this:

original string: any'string
several submits later: any\\\\\\\\\\'string

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 [2008-07-14 23:41 UTC] jani@php.net 
Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself.  For a
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visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the
appropriate forum for asking support questions.  Due to the volume
of reports we can not explain in detail here why your report is not
a bug.  The support channels will be able to provide an explanation
for you.

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