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Re: WebObjects vulnerabilities?


  • Subject: Re: WebObjects vulnerabilities?
  • From: Simon <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:36:38 +0100

i think core WO is still plagued with the wosid cross-scripting issue too. we patch it in ERXRequest - not sure if the patch ever made it into wonder though...

simon


On 12 July 2011 02:43, Mike Schrag <email@hidden> wrote:
You have to be mindful of ever rendering any tainted strings ... Any string that came from user input should be considered a risk for cross site scripting, so that's any field editable by a user, or any query parameter, etc. If you append those strings to response or <WOString> render them, make sure to escape HTML or strip HTML.

ms

On Jul 11, 2011, at 9:41 PM, Mai Nguyen wrote:

> Do you mean the issue of malicious HTML tags?
>
> I wonder what would be the best way to prevent those?
>
> thanks,
>
> mai
>
>
> On Jul 11, 2011, at 6:36 PM, George Domurot wrote:
>
>> If you output strings with escapeHTML=false, you could have an issue.
>> You may want to consider stripping all potential tags from strings prior to rendering, or at the time of entry.
>>
>> -G
>>
>> On Jul 11, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Mai Nguyen wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I have found some good information about WebObjects and security at the following wiki link:
>>>
>>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/WebObjects/Web_Applications/Development/Authentication_and_Security
>>>
>>> However, there is no mention about SQL injections which seems to be an active subject lately. Is WebObjects pretty safe, as there is no need to generate SQL directly and access to the DB is going through the EOs normally?
>>> Are there any other loopholes that I am not aware of?
>>> About the following article:
>>> http://support.apple.com/kb/TA26730?viewlocale=en_US
>>> Would the normal WebObjects behavior be pretty safe if one does not allow the user to enter HTML tags? Does Project Wonder do something in this area?
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your advice,
>>>
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