CI SECURE IMAGE UPLOADER is a library specially made for Codeigniter version 3.x. The purpose of making this library is to ensure that images uploaded by users are free of malicious code that is created to hack servers or applications.
Find out how an image can run a malicious script please visit the following site:
- https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/hiding-php-code-in-image-files-revisited/
- https://medium.com/@igordata/php-running-jpg-as-php-or-how-to-prevent-execution-of-user-uploaded-files-6ff021897389
Version 1.0
PHP version 5.6 or newer is recommended.
It should work on 5.3.7 as well, but we strongly advise you NOT to run such old versions of PHP, because of potential security and performance issues, as well as missing features.