File Manager Edit File bug

[dariofg2]

In the "Edit File" function of CPanel's "File Manager", the contents of the file are being dumped inside the textarea form field without escaping the HTML special characters:

& = &
< = &amp;lt;
> = &amp;gt;
" = &amp;quot;

What happens is that when a file that's being edited has the tag </textarea>, the browser mistakingly closes the textarea, and the file's contents and the page's HTML code get mixed up.

-Dario

[dolphyn]

Agreed, but sometimes the effects are a bit more subtle.

One of my customers was trying to use a greeting card script (link) and this bug caused a tiny section of the file to get corrupted every time he used the CPanel File Editor to make minor changes. Result: "Internal Server Error" when he tried to run the script.