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escapeshellcmd
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
escapeshellcmd — Escape shell metacharacters
Description
$command
) : stringescapeshellcmd() escapes any characters in a string that might be used to trick a shell command into executing arbitrary commands. This function should be used to make sure that any data coming from user input is escaped before this data is passed to the exec() or system() functions, or to the backtick operator.
Following characters are preceded by a backslash: &#;`|*?~<>^()[]{}$\, \x0A and \xFF. ' and " are escaped only if they are not paired. In Windows, all these characters plus % and ! are replaced by a space instead.
Examples
Example #1 escapeshellcmd() example
<?php
// We allow arbitrary number of arguments intentionally here.
$command = './configure '.$_POST['configure_options'];
$escaped_command = escapeshellcmd($command);
system($escaped_command);
?>
escapeshellcmd() should be used on the whole command string, and it still allows the attacker to pass arbitrary number of arguments. For escaping a single argument escapeshellarg() should be used instead.
See Also
- escapeshellarg() - Escape a string to be used as a shell argument
- exec() - Execute an external program
- popen() - Opens process file pointer
- system() - Execute an external program and display the output
- backtick operator
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Document created the 30/01/2003, last modified the 26/10/2018
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