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Title : A function to clean input coming from form fields (Minimize the risk for XSS and SQL Injection attacks).
Categories : Beginner Guides, Security, Data Validation
Boaz Yahav
Date : Jul 31st 2006
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It's very important to check ANY input coming from the web to your system. Specially if you do something with the data like : echo it to the screen (XSS Attack), save it in your database (SQL Injection Attack) or just access your file system according to the input. There are some basic tests on the input that you can do to minimize the threat and this is the function that follows. I would love to get more input from people about what else to add to the check list.

<?php
function GetField($input) {
   
$input=strip_tags($input);
   
$input=str_replace("<","<",$input);
   
$input=str_replace(">",">",$input);
   
$input=str_replace("#","%23",$input);
   
$input=str_replace("'","`",$input);
   
$input=str_replace(";","%3B",$input);
   
$input=str_replace("script","",$input);
   
$input=str_replace("%3c","",$input);
   
$input=str_replace("%3e","",$input);
   
$input=trim($input);
    return
$input;
}
?>



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