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POCakePHP Security - Prevent Form Injection
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<p>I currently have 1 table, Users which looks like this</p> <pre><code>|**id**|**username**|**password**|**role**|**email**| </code></pre> <p>I'm using CakePHP's form helper to automatically fill in editable form fields. I'm creating an edit page in which users can change there username/password/email, but should NOT be able to change their role. I'm currently checking to make sure the user hasn't injected a role POST field into the request and was wondering if there is any better way to do this? It's trivial in this scenario with such a small table, but I can see this becoming tiresome on fields/tables with a large amount of columns. My current edit action looks like this.</p> <pre><code>public function edit($id = null) { $this->User->id = $id; if(!$this->User->exists()) { throw new NotFoundException('Invalid user'); } $userToEdit = $this->User->findById($id); if(!$userToEdit) { throw new NotFoundException('Invalid user'); } if($this->getUserRole() != 'admin' && $userToEdit['User']['owner'] != $this->Auth->user('id')) { throw new ForbiddenException("You do not have permission to edit this user"); } if($this->request->is('post') || $this->request->is('put')) { //Do not reset password if empty if(empty($this->request->data['User']['password'])) unset($this->request->data['User']['password']); if(isset($this->request->data['User']['role'])) unset($this->request->data['User']['role']); if($this->User->save($this->request->data)) { $this->set('success', true); } else $this->set('success', false); } else { $this->request->data = $this->User->read(); //Prevent formhelper from displaying hashed password. unset($this->request->data['User']['password']); } } </code></pre>
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CakePHP Security - Prevent Form Injection
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1. COTry to use the security component to prevent form tempering if possible. You might also want to read http://www.dereuromark.de/2010/09/21/saving-model-data-and-security/
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