Weakness (CWE)

CWE-597: Use of Wrong Operator in String Comparison

Variant Draft

The product uses the wrong operator when comparing a string, such as using "==" when the .equals() method should be used instead.

How to prevent it (1 mitigation)

Implementation

Within Java, use .equals() to compare string values.
Within JavaScript, use == to compare string values.
Within PHP, use == to compare a numeric value to a string value. (PHP converts the string to a number.)

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