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Feature #607

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Potential vulnerability with external references in HTML version

Added by Boris N about 14 years ago. Updated about 13 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Target version:
Start date:
11/17/2010
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Description

In html-version external references to other sites are represented with simple

So other site might receive wtd pamameter from Referer HTTP parameter

Suggestion is as follows:

use intermediate page without wtd parameter in url, redirecting user to target url

Actions #1

Updated by Koen Deforche about 14 years ago

  • Status changed from New to InProgress
  • Assignee set to Koen Deforche

Hey Boris,

Good catch! To count as a security measure, we would need to do this for any anchor (through WAnchor or a in XHTML content) when the current page has the wtd in the URL (e.g. in plain HTML sessions or when reload-is-new-session is false).

Apparently, do a server-side redirect will replace the Referer correctly, so we would need to replace:

with and implement in WebSession a special 'redirect' request

Regards,

koen

Actions #2

Updated by Koen Deforche about 13 years ago

  • Status changed from InProgress to Resolved
  • Target version set to 3.1.11

Hey,

We've implemented just this: to use a redirect-indirection in case the current URL contains the (current) session Id.

We still should add this to a few other places, like in the XSS filter and for image src URLs.

Regards,

koen

Actions #3

Updated by Koen Deforche about 13 years ago

  • Status changed from Resolved to Closed

Resolved in Wt 3.1.11

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