[PHP] Storing user entered data in the session
Can anyone guide me here? I have the desire to store user entered data into the session. I am regexing it to be only a-zA-z0-9 and a space. The data is stored in an object and then serialized before storing it into the session. Does anyone see any potential security risks here? Thanks, Mike -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Storing user entered data in the session
The data is displayed on the screen, and the user can change it as many times as they want. What do you think now Ash? Mike On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.ukwrote: On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 09:07 -0500, Mike Alaimo wrote: Can anyone guide me here? I have the desire to store user entered data into the session. I am regexing it to be only a-zA-z0-9 and a space. The data is stored in an object and then serialized before storing it into the session. Does anyone see any potential security risks here? Thanks, Mike I think you're fine, I can't see any problems. I think most of the time you have to worry when you're actually doing something with the data, like inserting it into a file or database, or outputting it to a screen, as these are the times that injections can take place. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] Storing user entered data in the session
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 09:36 -0500, Mike Alaimo wrote: The data is displayed on the screen, and the user can change it as many times as they want. What do you think now Ash? Mike On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.ukwrote: On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 09:07 -0500, Mike Alaimo wrote: Can anyone guide me here? I have the desire to store user entered data into the session. I am regexing it to be only a-zA-z0-9 and a space. The data is stored in an object and then serialized before storing it into the session. Does anyone see any potential security risks here? Thanks, Mike I think you're fine, I can't see any problems. I think most of the time you have to worry when you're actually doing something with the data, like inserting it into a file or database, or outputting it to a screen, as these are the times that injections can take place. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk Well, if it's only alpha-numerica data with spaces, I don't see any problems still. Anything input from the user that gets output to the screen should be carefully parsed to ensure that any HTML it contains is either removed or escaped to make it safe. Data stored in a database should be filtered out to make sure that the user isn't shoving in their own queries, otherwise you'll end up with situations like this: http://xkcd.com/327/ Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] Storing user entered data in the session
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 09:07 -0500, Mike Alaimo wrote: Can anyone guide me here? I have the desire to store user entered data into the session. I am regexing it to be only a-zA-z0-9 and a space. The data is stored in an object and then serialized before storing it into the session. Does anyone see any potential security risks here? Thanks, Mike I think you're fine, I can't see any problems. I think most of the time you have to worry when you're actually doing something with the data, like inserting it into a file or database, or outputting it to a screen, as these are the times that injections can take place. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
