Okay, you're writing a CGI script in perl and you want security.
Have perl check for tainted data. (the -T command line option).
Some advice that's not security related but good anyway, tell perl to show you warnings ( -w ) and errors (use strict).
Something like:

#!/usr/bin/perl -T
use strict;
use warnings;

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or:
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;

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Update:Reworded the part about warnings and strict
Who says that programmers can't work in the Marketing Department?
Or is that who says that Marketing people can't program?

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