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Bug #66930 PHP Version dropdown allows any value
Submitted: 2014-03-18 21:27 UTC Modified: 2016-09-29 13:51 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (100.0%)
Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: mot+php at tom dot be Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Not a bug Package: Website problem
PHP Version: 5.7-Your-Mother OS: Any
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2014-03-18 21:27 UTC] mot+php at tom dot be 
Description:
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You can easely tamper with the value of the PHP Version of this bug-report website by using the Chrome development console or FireBug.

Appearently, there's no input validation on that field.

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 [2014-03-27 05:20 UTC] levim@php.net 
I'm really not concerned about this; by design people with @php.net accounts can write whatever they want in that field anyway. We should probably double check to make sure we aren't vulnerable to any attacks this way, though.
 [2016-09-29 13:51 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2016-09-29 13:51 UTC] cmb@php.net 
> We should probably double check to make sure we aren't
> vulnerable to any attacks this way, though.

The DB access uses prepared statements and the output is escaped
by htmlspecialchars(). Seems to be sufficient.
 
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