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Summary The program invokes extract(), which can overwrite global variables and might open the door for attackers. The program invokes a function that can overwrite global variables, which can open ...

Scope in JavaScript refers to context (or portion) of the code which determines the accessibility (visibility) of variables. In JavaScript, we have two types of scope, local , and global.

I remember to have seen a similar behavior in Lua (a while back), in which the default access for any variable is global unless you explicitly declare it local. Never done any JavaScript, btw ...

I was digging around on twitter and I found a great comment from @BenAtExocortex: “Javascript has no block scope (!) but one can use self-executing functions instead (as Javascript has function scope.

It looks like global scope is nothing more than the bi-product of the closure support that JavaScript has built into it, in combination with the outermost scope of the runtime (a DOMWindow or some ...