diff --git a/phpBB/develop/check_flash_bbcodes.php b/phpBB/develop/check_flash_bbcodes.php
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+<?php
+/**
+*
+* @package phpBB3
+* @version $Id$
+* @copyright (c) 2009, 2010 phpBB Group
+* @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GNU Public License
+*
+*/
+
+/**
+* This script will check your database for potentially dangerous flash BBCode tags
+*/
+
+//
+// Security message:
+//
+// This script is potentially dangerous.
+// Remove or comment the next line (die(".... ) to enable this script.
+// Do NOT FORGET to either remove this script or disable it after you have used it.
+//
+die("Please read the first lines of this script for instructions on how to enable it\n");
+
+/**
+*/
+define('IN_PHPBB', true);
+$phpbb_root_path = (defined('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH')) ? PHPBB_ROOT_PATH : './';
+$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);
+include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);
+
+if (php_sapi_name() != 'cli')
+{
+	header('Content-Type: text/plain');
+}
+
+check_table_flash_bbcodes(POSTS_TABLE, 'post_id', 'post_text', 'bbcode_uid', 'bbcode_bitfield');
+check_table_flash_bbcodes(PRIVMSGS_TABLE, 'msg_id', 'message_text', 'bbcode_uid', 'bbcode_bitfield');
+check_table_flash_bbcodes(USERS_TABLE, 'user_id', 'user_sig', 'user_sig_bbcode_uid', 'user_sig_bbcode_bitfield');
+check_table_flash_bbcodes(FORUMS_TABLE, 'forum_id', 'forum_desc', 'forum_desc_uid', 'forum_desc_bitfield');
+check_table_flash_bbcodes(FORUMS_TABLE, 'forum_id', 'forum_rules', 'forum_rules_uid', 'forum_rules_bitfield');
+check_table_flash_bbcodes(GROUPS_TABLE, 'group_id', 'group_desc', 'group_desc_uid', 'group_desc_bitfield');
+
+echo "If potentially dangerous flash bbcodes were found, please reparse the posts using the Support Toolkit (http://www.phpbb.com/support/stk/) and/or file a ticket in the Incident Tracker (http://www.phpbb.com/incidents/).\n";
+
+function check_table_flash_bbcodes($table_name, $id_field, $content_field, $uid_field, $bitfield_field)
+{
+	echo "Checking $content_field on $table_name\n";
+
+	$ids = get_table_flash_bbcode_pkids($table_name, $id_field, $content_field, $uid_field, $bitfield_field);
+
+	$size = sizeof($ids);
+	if ($size)
+	{
+		echo "Found $size potentially dangerous flash bbcodes.\n";
+		echo "$id_field: " . implode(', ', $ids) . "\n";
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		echo "No potentially dangerous flash bbcodes found.\n";
+	}
+
+	echo "\n";
+}
+
+function get_table_flash_bbcode_pkids($table_name, $id_field, $content_field, $uid_field, $bitfield_field)
+{
+	global $db;
+
+	$ids = array();
+
+	$sql = "SELECT $id_field, $content_field, $uid_field, $bitfield_field
+		FROM $table_name
+		WHERE $content_field LIKE '%[/flash:%'
+			AND $bitfield_field <> ''";
+
+	$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
+	while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result))
+	{
+		$uid = $row[$uid_field];
+
+		// thanks support toolkit
+		$content = html_entity_decode_utf8($row[$content_field]);
+		set_var($content, $content, 'string', true);
+		$content = utf8_normalize_nfc($content);
+
+		$bitfield_data = $row[$bitfield_field];
+
+		if (!is_valid_flash_bbcode($content, $uid) && has_flash_enabled($bitfield_data))
+		{
+			$ids[] = (int) $row[$id_field];
+		}
+	}
+	$db->sql_freeresult($result);
+
+	return $ids;
+}
+
+function get_flash_regex($uid)
+{
+	return "#\[flash=([0-9]+),([0-9]+):$uid\](.*?)\[/flash:$uid\]#";
+}
+
+// extract all valid flash bbcodes
+// check if the bbcode content is a valid URL for each match
+function is_valid_flash_bbcode($cleaned_content, $uid)
+{
+	$regex = get_flash_regex($uid);
+
+	$url_regex = get_preg_expression('url');
+	$www_url_regex = get_preg_expression('www_url');
+
+	if (preg_match_all($regex, $cleaned_content, $matches))
+	{
+		foreach ($matches[3] as $flash_url)
+		{
+			if (!preg_match("#^($url_regex|$www_url_regex)$#i", $flash_url))
+			{
+				return false;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return true;
+}
+
+// check if a bitfield includes flash
+// 11 = flash bit
+function has_flash_enabled($bitfield_data)
+{
+	$bitfield = new bitfield($bitfield_data);
+	return $bitfield->get(11);
+}
+
+// taken from support toolkit
+function html_entity_decode_utf8($string)
+{
+	static $trans_tbl;
+
+	// replace numeric entities
+	$string = preg_replace('~&#x([0-9a-f]+);~ei', 'code2utf8(hexdec("\\1"))', $string);
+	$string = preg_replace('~&#([0-9]+);~e', 'code2utf8(\\1)', $string);
+
+	// replace literal entities
+	if (!isset($trans_tbl))
+	{
+		$trans_tbl = array();
+
+		foreach (get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES) as $val=>$key)
+			$trans_tbl[$key] = utf8_encode($val);
+	}
+	return strtr($string, $trans_tbl);
+}
+
+// taken from support toolkit
+// Returns the utf string corresponding to the unicode value (from php.net, courtesy - romans@void.lv)
+function code2utf8($num)
+{
+	if ($num < 128) return chr($num);
+	if ($num < 2048) return chr(($num >> 6) + 192) . chr(($num & 63) + 128);
+	if ($num < 65536) return chr(($num >> 12) + 224) . chr((($num >> 6) & 63) + 128) . chr(($num & 63) + 128);
+	if ($num < 2097152) return chr(($num >> 18) + 240) . chr((($num >> 12) & 63) + 128) . chr((($num >> 6) & 63) + 128) . chr(($num & 63) + 128);
+	return '';
+}