Founder of Les-Tilleuls.coop (worker-owned cooperative). Creator of API Platform, Mercure.rocks, Vulcain.rocks and of some Symfony components.
You may have noticed the recent fuss about the compromise of event-stream, a popular NPM package: event-stream is a transitive dependency of many popular JavaScript projects including Vue, Angular, Gatsby and VSCode (some of them are using a version that isn’t affected by the attack). This attack raised, again, the problem of the JS dependency…
There is an easy way to generate a Symfony compliant password hash from the command line. Assuming you’re using the bcrypt algorithm (the preferred choice according to Symfony’s security best practices), the default cost (13) and you have PHP >= 5.5 installed, just run the following command: php -r “echo password_hash(‘ThePassword’, PASSWORD_BCRYPT, [‘cost’ => 13]) . PHP_EOL;” It will…
I create and I see more and more web applications sharing the same powerful architecture: Server-side, a REST API built with the popular Symfony framework and its ecosystem (especially FOSRestBundle, JMSSerializerBundle and sometimes BazingaHateoasBundle for hypermedia APIs). Client-side, a SPA built with Google’s AngularJS consuming the REST API provided by the server with Restangular or a similar library. These components share the same philosophy (built…
HTML Purifier is a awesome PHP filter library designed to secure and add standard compliance to HTML. In websites including user generated content, this library allow to have mutlimedia pages including image, text formating and YouTube videos in a secure and SEO proof way thanks to rich text editors like Tiny MCE or FCK Editor…
Some times ago I found a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in MessengerFX, a popular web-based Windows Live Messenger client. Friday I received from the team saying that the problem is now corrected: Hi Kevin, First of all i want to thank you for your warn. We fixed that problem and now its working correctly. […]…
I have paste some HTML code to a Edouard using MessengerFX, a popular web Windows Live Messenger client based on AJAX, and – surprise, the code has been interpreted. Oh?! A XSS vulnerability ? Yes, and such a big one! Every software’s feature is available through Javascript. Any contact of a MessengerFX user can crash his browser, and furthermore…