The fix involved embedding the session id in the forms, and not allowing the forms to be submitted if the embedded id does not match the session id. In the case of the preferences form, if the session id is not embedded, then the CGI parameters are cleared. This avoids a secondary attack where the link to the preferences form prefills password or other fields, and the user hits "submit" without noticing these prefilled values. In the case of the editpage form, the anonok plugin can allow anyone to edit, and so I chose not to guard against CSRF attacks against users who are not logged in. Otherwise, it also embeds the session id and checks it. For page editing, I assume that the user will notice if content or commit message is changed because of CGI parameters, and won't blndly hit save page. So I didn't block those CGI paramters. (It's even possible to use those CGI parameters, for good, not for evil, I guess..) The only other CSRF attack I can think of in ikiwiki involves the poll plugin. It's certianly possible to set up a link that causes the user to unknowingly vote in a poll. However, the poll plugin is not intended to be used for things that people would want to attack, since anyone can after all edit the poll page and fill in any values they like. So this "attack" is ignorable. |
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IkiWiki | ||
debian | ||
doc | ||
plugins | ||
po | ||
t | ||
templates | ||
underlays | ||
.gitignore | ||
.perlcriticrc | ||
CHANGELOG | ||
IkiWiki.pm | ||
Makefile.PL | ||
NEWS | ||
README | ||
docwiki.setup | ||
ikiwiki-makerepo | ||
ikiwiki-mass-rebuild | ||
ikiwiki-transition | ||
ikiwiki-update-wikilist | ||
ikiwiki-w3m.cgi | ||
ikiwiki.in | ||
mdwn2man | ||
pm_filter | ||
wikilist |
README
Use ./Makefile.PL to generate a Makefile, "make" will build the documentation wiki and a man page, and "make install" will install ikiwiki. A few special variables you can set while using the Makefile: PROFILE=1 turns on profiling for the build of the doc wiki. Uses Devel::Profile NOTAINT=0 turns on the taint flag in the ikiwiki program. (Not recommended unless your perl is less buggy than mine -- see http://bugs.debian.org/411786) All other documentation is in the ikiwiki documentation wiki, which is also available online at <http://ikiwiki.info/>