Security check fail

Security check condition to check that the path is NOT a URL may give false negative in case of subdomains. Where URLs don't start with  http or www.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/system/helpers/path_helper.php b/system/helpers/path_helper.php
index c23ec6435..34eebc4b0 100644
--- a/system/helpers/path_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/path_helper.php
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('set_realpath'))
 	function set_realpath($path, $check_existance = FALSE)
 	{
 		// Security check to make sure the path is NOT a URL. No remote file inclusion!
+		// PROBLEM HERE - this can be easily bypassed in case of subdomains
 		if (preg_match('#^(http:\/\/|https:\/\/|www\.|ftp|[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3})#i', $path))
 		{
 			show_error('The path you submitted must be a local server path, not a URL');