in reply to Re: Simple XML Dumper
in thread Simple XML Dumper

Not generally.

If it's documented, it's not so bad, because whoever wants to exploit it could have run perl -e instead.

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Re^3: Simple XML Dumper
by jdporter (Paladin) on Sep 30, 2008 at 14:26 UTC

    If the script is setuid, it's considerably worse than perl -e.

      If the script is setuid, taint checking is enabled by default, and I don't think that evaling tainted strings is allowed.