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Prepared statements were considered the best practice for over a decade now. I know these things take time but the fact that this is just happening now is actually more cause for alarm, not less.

Great stuff again Matthew :), your blogs are always easy to read and helpful! Personally I think that string concatenation in query building throughout the Sugar code base (campaigns, workflows) is very problematic and could also be exposed in a couple of scenarios. But like I said, this seems to be the work in progress currently at Sugar.

Hopefully Sugar will come forward with a response to these allegations because these are serious security risks.

Thanks. Yes, I am hopeful that a response will be forthcoming.

> mitigates any potential SQL injection problems

Not quite, string concat for defining queries is still plenty vulnerable regardless of PDO.

it mitigates quite some SQL injection possibilities, but yes, string concat while building queries still remains an issue.