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Discussion on: My App was Under Attack!

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Replies for: So if I understand, this is not a case of your app having some kind of vulnerability, but the attack was to bomb it with legitimate requests? I am ...

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Mark Harless Author •

Yep, they were just random alphanumeric characters that passed my POST validations.

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ビノタ •

Using user input as actual filenames is still a terrible idea. Consider to use an internal key or hashed string as filenames.