[BNM] Definition of a Widdecombe?

[Tristan Roddis]

I was about to email a client pointing out that a solution that relied on text passed in the query string (e.g. foo.php?text=Hello%20There ) was a bad idea as it would let people make your site display arbitrary text.

Last I heard, this was called a 'Widdecombe' after the fact that Ann Widdecombe's old site used this technique and so people would 'deface' it regularly to humourous effect. I think it was NTK[1] who coined the term.

However, despite lots of Googling, I can't find this word defined anywhere.

So... can anyone tell me where I can find a web page with a clear definition of a Widdecombe (in the web sense rather than the political one)? Alternatively, if this is merely a provincial, UK-centric term, and there is something more universally accepted, what is it called? (URL-injection? Query-string-to-display-vulnerability? Incipient widdification?)

Ta,

-T.

[1] http://www.ntk.net/

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