Is it safe to use TimThumb?

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I'm making a website and I started using the TimThumb.php library to resize the images to the exact size I want. However I came to two doubts

  • Is it safe to use? hear that past versions presented vulnerability;
  • Doing the usage will imply something in the performance of my site? ex: more work for the server.
    • asked by anonymous 20.12.2015 / 22:41

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    Timthumb has only security vulnerabilities, the developers themselves mentioned it once (I think it was on their own blog) and linked it to the reason why they stopped continuing their development. I did a brief research to see if I found this article but I did not find it. In the meantime I have never followed their status and development updates, so I do not know how the situation is at the moment and whether they have already addressed these vulnerabilities or not, but there may be other developers who might have picked up the project and fixed this problem .

    However there are other methods and alternatives for this plugin.
    Searching Google we can find some of them:

      

    In English speaking of both, the TimThumb and the BFIThumb

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