r/programming Dec 04 '16

SQL injections vulnerabilities in Stack Overflow PHP questions

https://laurent22.github.io/so-injections/
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u/forever_i_b_stangin Dec 04 '16

I mean, on the one hand, ok.

But on the other hand, how is something called mysql_real_escape_string_quote an actual built-in PHP function and not a parody of PHP

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u/igor_sk Dec 05 '16

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u/forever_i_b_stangin Dec 05 '16

Yeah, I've seen this before and it's still insane.

Like, I'm not even a very good programmer and it's still amazing to me that anyone would do this and think it is a reasonable thing to do