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?

  • lemmyvoreEnglish
    0•1 year ago

    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.

    • @TheEighthDoctorEnglish
      2•1 year 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.