Hi John

On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 8:02 PM John Coggeshall <j...@coggeshall.org> wrote:
>
> This is an attack vector for every application and I would argue should be a 
> real concern for the vast majority of applications  out there -- any which 
> rely on namespace-based frameworks and composer packages from untrustworthy 
> sources. It's not just Wordpress -- literally every single PHP application 
> that uses a publicly available framework and consumes external composer 
> packages should be FQing their internal function calls. The natural behavior 
> of the language shouldn't be the insecure way of doing things for the sake of 
> maintaining BC compatibility with existing, insecure, code.

Including a malicious composer package already allows for arbitrary
code execution, do you really need more than that?

Ilija

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