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Ben Edmunds
August 19, 2014
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Transcript
PHP secure
Wild Lightning Talk Appeared!
Who is this guy? Ben Edmunds ! @benedmunds http://benedmunds.com
Who is this guy? Ben Edmunds ! Open Source Author
PHP Town Hall Podcast CTO at Mindfulware
Exceptions
None
Exceptions try { //your code goes here } catch (Exception
$e) { die($e->getMessage()); }
Exceptions try { //your code goes here } catch (Exception
$e) { die($e->getMessage()); }
PDO
None
PDO Cross System
PDO Cross System MS SQL MySQL Oracle PostgreSQL SQLite CUBRID
Firebird Informix ODBC & DB2 4D
PDO Cross System Safe Binding
PDO $stmt = $db->prepare(‘ SELECT * FROM users WHERE id=:id
’); ! $stmt->bindParam(‘:id’, $id); $stmt->execute();
PDO //escaping input $stmt->bindParam(‘:id’, $id);
PDO //escaping input $stmt->bindParam(‘:id’, $id); //escaping output htmlentities($_POST[‘name’]);
HTTPS / SSL
HTTPS/SSL Encrypts traffic across the wire ! Trusted sender and
receiver ! Required by OAUTH 2
Passwords
Passwords //safe password hashing password_hash($_POST['pass']);
Passwords //safe password hashing password_hash($_POST['pass']); //password verification password_verify($_POST['pass'], $u->pass);
Authentication
Authentication //authentication - access control if (!$user->inGroup(‘admin’)) { return ‘ERROR
YO’; }
Authentication //authentication - brute force if ($user->loginAttempts > 5) {
return ‘CAUGHT YA’; }
Safe Defaults
Safe Defaults class Your Controller { protected $var1 = ‘default
value’; ! function __construct() { … } }
Safe Defaults $something = false; ! foreach ($array as $k
=> $v) { $something = $v->foo; if ($something == ‘bar’) { … } }
Popular Hacks
None
Popular Hacks //Non-Persistent XSS ! http://www.yourSite.com/ ?page_num=2&per_page=50 ! Send the
link to someone, boom
Popular Hacks //Persistent XSS ! Same idea, except with data
that is saved to the server and re-displayed
Popular Hacks //XSS Protection ! <h1>Title</h1> Hello <?=htmlentities($name)?> ! !
Popular Hacks //Cross Site Request Forgery //(CSRF) ! http://yourSite.com/ users/12/delete
! !
Popular Hacks //CSRF Protection ! POST / PUT / UPDATE
/ DELETE behind forms with one-time use tokens ! !
Popular Hacks //CSRF Protection ! function generateCsrf() { $token =
mcrypt_create_iv( 16, MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM); Session::flash('csrfToken', $token); return $token; }
Popular Hacks //CSRF Protection ! if ( $_POST['token'] == Session::get(‘csrfToken')
) { … } !
Unit Testing
None
Unit Testing PHPUnit Behat Mink Selenium CodeCeption PHPSpec
Unit Testing class ApiAuthTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase { ! public function
testVerify() { ! $auth = new apiAuth(); $this->assertTrue($auth->verify());
Unit Testing class ApiAuthTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase { ! public function
testVerify() { ! $auth = new apiAuth(); $this->assertTrue($auth->verify());
Unit Testing $ phpunit tests ! PHPUnit 3.3.17 by Sebastian
Bergmann. Time: 0.01 seconds OK (1 tests, 1 assertions)
Resources
None
Resources PHP.net
Resources Modern Frameworks Laravel Symfony2 Fuel PHP SlimPHP 2 Aura
for PHP Silex
Resources leanpub.com/ phptherightway PHPtheRightWay.com
Resources BuildSecurePHPapps.com Coupon Code: nomadphp $3 off http://buildsecurephpapps.com/?coupon=nomadphp
Q/A TIME! Ben Edmunds @benedmunds http://benedmunds.com http://buildsecurephpapps.com/?coupon=nomadphp