[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #2454: Comment URL not cleaned before set in cookie

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Wed Feb 15 23:30:20 GMT 2006


#2454: Comment URL not cleaned before set in cookie
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       Id:  2454            |      Status:  new                     
Component:  Administration  |    Modified:  Wed Feb 15 23:30:20 2006
 Severity:  trivial         |   Milestone:  2.1                     
 Priority:  low             |     Version:  2.0.1                   
    Owner:  anonymous       |    Reporter:  skeltoac                
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 The following article claims that this is a security hole. Dougal and I
 disagree: you can't steal cred cookies with this vector because the URL
 cookie is only set in the browser of the person submitting the comment,
 and the affected control only appears when the visitor is not logged in.
 Anyway, attached is a patch to clean the URL before setting the cookie.

 http://myimei.com/security/2006-02-15/wordpress200autors-websitexss-
 attack.html#more-14

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