hi everyoone...
i have 2 questions

1. i made some scripts to generate dynamic pages.
the dynamic pages show data that some user entered before.
i want to give them the opportunity to type html code in their input.

for exapmle, when a user enters :
<b>hello</b>
the dynamic page will display
hello and not
<b>hello</b>
i was wondering if this could be a security bug,i see perlmonks.com allows to do this too, i guess is ok (except <script> tags and what else??)but i have to ask!


2. i have another perl script that includes some "administrator" functions ("functions.lib")
in this script there is no check if the user calling the function has the privilege to call it..
the check is done before, in a *.cgi script and if user has the privilege then the function is called from "functions.lib" ...
is there any way that someone could use functions directly from "functions.lib" ?
i should add check there too ?


the real question is this : if someone knew the code of my scripts you think he could find some hole?

thanx in advance monks!
always a pleasure to learn from you

In reply to security questions by noname00

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