Security researchers dissected vm2, the popular Node.js sandbox library, and disclosed twelve vulnerabilities—including three CVSS 10.0 flaws that allow unchecked require, WebAssembly JSPI escape, and deny‑list bypass—prompting immediate upgrades and mitigation steps for all users.
This article explains the PHP addcslashes() function, its syntax, parameters, and practical examples for escaping specific characters—including letters, quotes, and backslashes—while also highlighting differences from addslashes() and providing clear code demonstrations.
The article explains a puzzling MySQL DELETE failure caused by a missing primary key, shows how Navicat adds an ESCAPE clause to the generated SQL, clarifies the purpose of ESCAPE in LIKE patterns, and reveals that the real issue was a mistaken condition order in the query.
This article explains how MySQL treats backslashes as escape characters in INSERT and SELECT queries, demonstrates the effect of different numbers of backslashes through practical tests, and clarifies the double‑escaping required when using LIKE patterns.
This article explains how Node.js's vm module creates isolated execution contexts, demonstrates several sandbox‑escape techniques using prototype chain manipulation, and offers practical solutions such as code scanning, using vm2, or building a custom interpreter to mitigate security risks.
This article explains Linux shell wildcard behavior, demonstrates common pitfalls with examples, and clarifies the differences between wildcards, metacharacters, and escape sequences while outlining the shell's parsing steps for reliable command-line usage.
This article explains the differences between JavaScript's escape, encodeURI and encodeURIComponent functions, the principles of percent‑encoding, the classification of reserved, unreserved and unsafe characters, and provides an overview of ASCII, Unicode and UTF‑8 character encodings.
