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Re: PHP BB bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Lafferty)
Fri Jul 16 18:50:35 2004
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 07:04:53 -0700
From: Rich Lafferty <rich@lafferty.ca>
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On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 11:38:56PM -0000, sasan hezarkhani <gootiker@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Hello,
> i dont know if my foundation is acceptable or not but here we go i post it...
>
> when u right an SQL query in the highlight section of the PHPBB u'll get all of the page highlighted
> example :
>
> forums/viewtopic.php?t=[NUMBER HERE]&highlight=Bug,SELECT * FROM $table
It's highlighting "Bug", "Select", "*", "From", and "$table". But "*"
matches everything. Try:
http://forum.example.com/viewtopic.php?t=[num]&highlight=*
That's exactly how it is intended to work. Not only is it not a security
issue, it's not even a bug.
-Rich
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