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Securing PHP Apps
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Securing PHP Apps

by Ben Edmunds
July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
66 pages
1h 27m
English
Apress
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© Ben Edmunds 2016

Ben Edmunds, Securing PHP Apps, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2120-4_5

5. Safe Defaults, Cross-Site Scripting, and Other Popular Hacks

Ben Edmunds1 

(1)Brooklyn, New York, USA

No story this time. This chapter is a catch-all for a couple other attacks you need to protect against, so there isn’t an overarching narrative. Try to contain your disappointment.

Never Trust Yourself: Use Safe Defaults

One of the core concepts of a secure system is safe defaults. Whenever possible (and it’s usually possible), you should define variables, properties, and so forth early with a safe default.

A safe default usually means a NULL, empty, or FALSE state. When determining logic flow, the default should always be a failure. For example, in the authentication ...

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