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How is the security level of PHP in 2023? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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In the early 2000s, everyone in my bubble knew that PHP was a security nightmare, only seconded by Flash. In the meantime, Adobe gave up on Flash, but PHP is still alive and rocking.

How did that happen? Did PHP get some serious makeover? Do developers just not care?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

PHP is as secure as any other language, the problem is the implementation of it.

For example I can upload a file to a webserver and the webserver is executing it instead of just reading it as text, It can be php, aspx, ruby, flask, doesn't matter, from the point of view of the attacker the only thing that changes is which webshell he will upload.

Regarding your experience, everything was a security nightmare in the early 2000's PHP was no exception.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For example I can upload a file to a webserver and the webserver is executing it instead of just reading it as text, It can be php, aspx, ruby, flask,

You do realize that only works for .php right? There no way to tell a Ruby or Python etc. app to run a file it wasn't designed to run.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You are kinda right I didn't know it was not possible on ruby (at least without chaining vulns), but it's possible on aspx, jsp and pearl at least.