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security: tighten redirects, login counting, user search, section toggles and profile fields - #293
redirect_header() checks the target before its preloads run, so the System preload's own redirect no longer skips the local-URL check. Protector counts every password login against the submitted name, including the password 0, and an autologin cookie no longer replaces it. The CAPTCHA allows exactly the configured number of attempts.
The user picker lets only administrators match or sort on hidden e-mail addresses. The System section switch accepts only existing sections from someone allowed to administer them. Registration and a member's own profile edit no longer write identity, credential, rank, post-count or date columns through profile fields; webmasters keep their own rank.
Summary by Sourcery
Harden redirects, authentication protections, administrative section access, user search privacy, and profile field writes.
Bug Fixes:
Validate redirect targets before preload handlers process them.
Count password login failures against the submitted username, including passwords set to "0", without allowing autologin cookies to override the name.
Enforce the configured CAPTCHA attempt limit precisely.
Restrict non-administrator user searches and sorting to publicly visible email addresses.
Require valid System sections and appropriate permissions before processing section toggles.
Prevent registration and self-service profile edits from changing protected account fields while preserving webmaster rank management.
Tests:
Add coverage for redirect validation, login brute-force counting, CAPTCHA limits, user search privacy, System section permissions, and protected profile fields.
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Bug Fixes
Redirect destinations are validated and normalized before redirect-related events run, preventing those events from handling unvalidated destinations.
Non-administrator email searches now return only users whose email addresses are public.
Login-attempt tracking uses the submitted username and counts valid credential pairs consistently. CAPTCHA challenges stop accepting attempts once the configured limit is reached.
System section changes require the appropriate authorization.
Profile updates and registration no longer overwrite protected account details; administrators can still update rank.
…gles and profile fields
redirect_header() checks the target before its preloads run, so the System preload's own redirect no longer skips the local-URL check. Protector counts every password login against the submitted name, including the password 0, and an autologin cookie no longer replaces it. The CAPTCHA allows exactly the configured number of attempts.
The user picker lets only administrators match or sort on hidden e-mail addresses. The System section switch accepts only existing sections from someone allowed to administer them. Registration and a member's own profile edit no longer write identity, credential, rank, post-count or date columns through profile fields; webmasters keep their own rank.
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This PR tightens several security-sensitive request paths by validating redirects before preloads, making login and CAPTCHA limits precise, restricting hidden-email searches and System section toggles by authorization, and preventing profile forms from writing protected account fields, with targeted contract tests covering the new guards.
Sequence diagram for hardened redirect handling
sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant redirect_header
participant SystemPreload
Caller->>redirect_header: redirect_header(url, time, message, addredirect, allowExternalLink)
redirect_header->>redirect_header: Validate target URL
alt unsafe target
redirect_header->>redirect_header: Replace url with XOOPS_URL
end
redirect_header->>SystemPreload: triggerEvent(core.include.functions.redirectheader.start, url)
SystemPreload-->>Caller: Send redirect response or continue
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Sequence diagram for precise password brute-force counting
sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant protector_postcommon
participant Protector
Client->>protector_postcommon: Submit login uname and pass
protector_postcommon->>protector_postcommon: Check uname and pass are non-empty strings
alt password login fields present
protector_postcommon->>Protector: check_brute_force()
Protector->>Protector: getString(uname, POST)
Protector-->>Protector: Count attempt against submitted uname
end
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Sequence diagram for protected profile account fields
sequenceDiagram
participant Member
participant ProfileForm
participant FieldHandler
participant UserAccount
Member->>ProfileForm: Submit registration or own profile edit
ProfileForm->>FieldHandler: getProtectedUserVars()
FieldHandler-->>ProfileForm: Protected account field names
ProfileForm->>ProfileForm: Skip protected profile fields
ProfileForm->>UserAccount: Save permitted profile fields
alt webmaster editing own profile
ProfileForm->>UserAccount: Save rank
end
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Flow diagram for authorized System section toggles
flowchart TD
A[Request System section toggle] --> B[Read type]
B --> C{Valid section name and xoops_version.php exists?}
C -- No --> D[403 Forbidden]
C -- Yes --> E[Load section category]
E --> F{Administrator or has system_admin permission?}
F -- No --> D
F -- Yes --> G[Process System section]
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Flow diagram for hidden-email user search restrictions
flowchart TD
A[User search request] --> B{Non-administrator?}
B -- No --> C[Apply requested email match or sort]
B -- Yes --> D{Email match or email sort requested?}
D -- No --> E[Use normal search criteria]
D -- Yes --> F[Add user_viewemail = 1]
F --> G[Search only publicly visible email addresses]
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File-Level Changes
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Redirect targets are validated before redirect preloads can emit their own response.
Move redirect-header preload events after local/safe URL validation.
Preserve the System preload’s AJAX redirect behavior while preventing it from bypassing validation.
htdocs/include/functions.php
Brute-force login tracking and CAPTCHA attempt limits now handle boundary and input cases correctly.
Count password logins using the submitted username, including password "0", without allowing an autologin cookie to replace it.
Reject CAPTCHA verification once failures reach the configured maximum.
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This pull request changes redirect validation, email visibility in user search, Protector login-attempt counting, CAPTCHA attempt limits, profile write protection, and System section-toggle authorization. It also adds changelog entries and contract tests.
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Redirect target validation
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Validate redirect targets before preloads htdocs/include/functions.php, tests/unit/htdocs/ControllerHardeningContractTest.php, docs/changelog.270.txt
redirect_header() validates the target before firing preload events. Contract tests check the ordering. The changelog records the change.
Non-administrator email searches and sorts require user_viewemail = 1. Contract tests check the filter before the count query. The changelog records the change.
Protector login-attempt counting
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Count attempts against the submitted login htdocs/xoops_lib/modules/protector/include/postcheck_functions.php, htdocs/xoops_lib/modules/protector/class/protector.php, tests/unit/htdocs/ControllerHardeningContractTest.php, docs/changelog.270.txt
Brute-force checks use the POST username before falling back to the autologin cookie. Credential checks compare against empty strings, so a password of "0" qualifies. Contract tests check both behaviors.
CAPTCHA attempt limits
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Enforce the configured attempt limit htdocs/class/captcha/xoopscaptcha.php, tests/unit/htdocs/ControllerHardeningContractTest.php, docs/changelog.270.txt
Verification and rendering treat the limit as reached when failures equal the configured maximum. Contract tests check both comparisons.
The profile field handler lists protected account fields. Registration skips protected fields when applying defaults and submitted values. Profile editing skips protected fields, except for rank for administrators. Tests check the protected set and write paths.
System section authorization
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Validate and authorize section toggles htdocs/modules/system/admin.php, tests/unit/htdocs/ControllerHardeningContractTest.php, docs/changelog.270.txt
The handler validates the section and checks authorization for its category before toggling it. Invalid or unauthorized requests receive HTTP 403 and Forbidden. Contract tests check the validation and authorization order.
Fix the failing redirect test and prevent administrator self-edits from changing protected identity fields before merging.
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Review comments at @htdocs/xoops_lib/modules/protector/class/protector.php:
- Around line 1517-1518: Update the password-attempt counting logic around
$victim_uname to count authentication requests only, excluding submissions from
register.php even when they include uname and pass. Preserve the existing login
behavior that ignores the autologin_uname=deleted cookie override.
Review comments at @tests/unit/htdocs/ControllerHardeningContractTest.php:
- Line 418: Strengthen the test around the `$local` and `$preload` positions to
assert that the `$url = XOOPS_URL` fallback assignment occurs after the rejected
local-URL check and before the preload event, so removing the fallback causes
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Three critical contract-test assertions do not match the production code’s multiline formatting, so the test suite fails until those expectations are corrected or made whitespace-tolerant.
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The broad security-sensitive changes across redirects, authentication throttling, CAPTCHA state, delegated admin permissions, and account writes require integration and deployment-configuration validation beyond the available static and source-contract tests.
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Minor · Split the redirect contract test into ordered… · ControllerHardeningContractTest.php:413-423
tests/unit/htdocs/ControllerHardeningContractTest.php:413-423 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Split the redirect contract test into ordered checks.
htdocs/include/functions.php places the condition and fallback assignment on separate lines, so the current needle never matches and assertNotFalse($local) fails.
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Review comment at @tests/unit/htdocs/ControllerHardeningContractTest.php around
lines 413 - 423:
Update redirectTargetsAreCheckedBeforeAnyPreload to locate the redirect
condition and the `$url = XOOPS_URL;` fallback separately, since they are on
different lines in redirect_header. Assert that both are found and ordered
condition, fallback, then preload trigger.
Minor · Block protected identity writes in administrator self-edit requests. · edituser.php:71-89
htdocs/modules/profile/edituser.php:71-89 Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Block protected identity writes in administrator self-edit requests.
An administrator op=save request reaches lines 46-48 before the protected-field guard. The request can set uname and email on the current user object. The later exception permits only rank, so these identity writes violate the self-edit contract. Remove the direct assignments.
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Review comment at @htdocs/modules/profile/edituser.php around lines 71 - 89:
Remove the administrator-only direct assignments to uname and email from the
op=save flow before the protected-field guard; let the existing protected-field
handling around getProtectedUserVars() govern identity fields while preserving
the rank exception.
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Review comments at @htdocs/modules/profile/edituser.php:
- Around line 71-89: Remove the administrator-only direct assignments to uname
and email from the op=save flow before the protected-field guard; let the
existing protected-field handling around getProtectedUserVars() govern identity
fields while preserving the rank exception.
Review comments at @tests/unit/htdocs/ControllerHardeningContractTest.php:
- Around line 413-423: Update redirectTargetsAreCheckedBeforeAnyPreload to
locate the redirect condition and the `$url = XOOPS_URL;` fallback separately,
since they are on different lines in redirect_header. Assert that both are found
and ordered condition, fallback, then preload trigger.
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redirect_header() checks the target before its preloads run, so the System preload's own redirect no longer skips the local-URL check. Protector counts every password login against the submitted name, including the password 0, and an autologin cookie no longer replaces it. The CAPTCHA allows exactly the configured number of attempts.
The user picker lets only administrators match or sort on hidden e-mail addresses. The System section switch accepts only existing sections from someone allowed to administer them. Registration and a member's own profile edit no longer write identity, credential, rank, post-count or date columns through profile fields; webmasters keep their own rank.
Summary by Sourcery
Harden redirects, authentication protections, administrative section access, user search privacy, and profile field writes.
Bug Fixes:
Tests:
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