Re: CERT Advisory on malicious scripts

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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = on 2/3/00 3:23 PM, Kenneth Grome at ken@simplewebstores.com wrote:> The simplest method to prevent this problem is to strip the < character from > your form values using a special db with convertchars to convert it to > nothing. This effectively prevents people from creating HTML tags. > > If you need to allow them to create HTML tags, then you will have to do more > work: > > Create a db that lists any tags you will not allow, and look for each of those > tags in every form field (not just the user-editable fields as you might > think), then post an error message saying something like The