---
title: "What you should know about PHP security vulnerabilities"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-you-should-know-about-php-security-vulnerabilities-so6h7dz7c
source_url: https://snyk.io/blog/php-code-security/
type: article
source: "Snyk"
published: 2024-09-04T17:06:57.371Z
updated: 2024-11-08T10:33:45.496Z
tags: ["webdev", "cyber", "php", "vulnerability", "laravel"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 70
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# What you should know about PHP security vulnerabilities

**[Snyk](https://daily.dev/sources/snyk)** · 9 min read · 70 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

PHP is a popular scripting language for web development, which makes it a target for hackers. Developers must understand PHP security risks like SQL Injection and code injection, and use practices like sanitizing inputs, using prepared statements, and regularly updating dependencies to mitigate these risks. Tools like Snyk can automate the process of identifying and fixing vulnerabilities in PHP applications, ensuring compliance and protecting against breaches.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@l4nos** · 0 upvotes

> What an absurd article, at least the TLDR and title, why is this aimed squarely at PHP like a cannon?
>
> SQL and code injection are attacks that are agnostic to programming language. They are techniques of exploitation, of poorly designed systems, not the direct result of a programming languages inherant traits.
>
> This is clearly just misinformation for the purpose of selling a product. Downvoted.

**@sam7work** · 0 upvotes

> PHP, and any other programming language for that matter, is best secured during the design and development stage, to simply implement your application as secure and coherent manner is your best defence against future attacks , since no one can predict the future as is, doing your best to make the present secure is what a developer can offer, the rest will have to come up in time

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Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#cyber](https://daily.dev/tags/cyber), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#vulnerability](https://daily.dev/tags/vulnerability), [#laravel](https://daily.dev/tags/laravel)

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