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[Solved] Security warning - register global variables

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:04 am
by Deak
When installing CMSMS (1.6, although I don't believe it's isolated to this version) I get a warning, not a failure, saying:
PHP register globals is active. For security reasons, this should be disabled.
Out of curiosity, what was the thinking behind having this disabled? How serious is it not to do this?

As an aside, the documentation link doesn't actually work for this warning:

http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... ls_enabled

Re: Security warning - register global variables

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:29 am
by alby
Deak wrote: Out of curiosity, what was the thinking behind having this disabled? How serious is it not to do this?
http://it2.php.net/manual/en/security.globals.php

Alby

Re: Security warning - register global variables

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:39 am
by Deak
Cheers Alby!