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How is the security level of PHP in 2023? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There are other backend languages that works like php in this regard such as ASP and CGI scripts (Perl, etc). Basically, if you have a bug that can be exploited to replace the app source code or binary, your backend will have similar vulnerability unless your backend uses a strict process control system (only loads source code / binary files on backend start and ignore subsequent file updates), which is the default for many backend languages these days but not all of them.