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Directory sign-in binds with the password as submitted and refuses an empty one; the bypass list matches exactly, and a digit-only user name matches only that account. The popup login uses the configured provider, and the upgrade wizard's legacy fallback runs only for local accounts.
Sessions refuse expired rows on every lookup, never re-insert a row a parallel logout removed, and a remember-me login starts a fresh session ID.
BBCode arguments that become attributes cannot hold brackets, image URLs are http(s) or paths, and font names cannot rebuild CSS delimiters. Unregistered db: template names read only template files inside the XOOPS directories; Smarty debugging follows the debug audience; the page cache keys URLs by their full digest; private messages are not page-cached.
Menu affixes, the admin redirect message, permission messages, profile option captions, date values, emoticon inserts and the logger popup are encoded for their context. Uploads, Snoopy redirects, template directory modes, the Protector allowlist write, installer and session cookies and the optional purify filters are tightened.
Summary by Sourcery
Harden authentication, session management, content processing, caching, and administrative output against security bypasses, injection, data leakage, and unsafe filesystem or network behavior.
Bug Fixes:
Harden authentication and session handling against empty-password binds, ambiguous usernames, expired or resurrected sessions, session fixation, and unsafe legacy login fallbacks.
Restrict BBCode, uploads, template resources, redirects, menu data, purifier behavior, cookies, and administrative output to safer validated or encoded forms.
Prevent private-message page caching and eliminate cache-key collisions while aligning Smarty debugging with the configured audience.
Enhancements:
Centralize context-appropriate escaping and allowlisting across menus, forms, messages, logging, editor inserts, and theme output.
Strengthen filesystem and network protections, including atomic Protector allowlist updates, safer template directories, origin-bound redirect state, and upload extension sanitization.
Documentation:
Add the changes to the project changelog.
Tests:
Add regression and contract coverage for authentication, sessions, sanitization, redirects, templates, cookies, caching, uploads, administrative output, and security-related filesystem behavior.
Summary by CodeRabbit
Bug Fixes
Improved LDAP and provider-based sign-in, including empty-password handling, exact username matching, and restricting legacy password fallback to local accounts.
Improved session expiration, cookie security, and session-ID handling during sign-in and logout.
Strengthened safeguards for rendered content, menu formatting, redirects, uploads, and cross-origin requests.
Improved template loading and cache behavior, including excluding private-message pages from shared page caching.
Updated the 2.7.5 changelog with additional fixes.
Tests
Added coverage for authentication, sessions, content rendering, templates, uploads, and related behavior.
…plate lookup and admin output
Directory sign-in binds with the password as submitted and refuses an empty one; the bypass list matches exactly, and a digit-only user name matches only that account. The popup login uses the configured provider, and the upgrade wizard's legacy fallback runs only for local accounts.
Sessions refuse expired rows on every lookup, never re-insert a row a parallel logout removed, and a remember-me login starts a fresh session ID.
BBCode arguments that become attributes cannot hold brackets, image URLs are http(s) or paths, and font names cannot rebuild CSS delimiters. Unregistered db: template names read only template files inside the XOOPS directories; Smarty debugging follows the debug audience; the page cache keys URLs by their full digest; private messages are not page-cached.
Menu affixes, the admin redirect message, permission messages, profile option captions, date values, emoticon inserts and the logger popup are encoded for their context. Uploads, Snoopy redirects, template directory modes, the Protector allowlist write, installer and session cookies and the optional purify filters are tightened.
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Review comments at @htdocs/class/template.php:
- Line 73: In XoopsTpl::__construct(), prevent the debug-audience match from
evaluating unless Smarty debugging is enabled by short-circuiting it with
debug_mode. Keep the audience map before the existing gate to preserve the
TemplateDebugAndPageCacheContractTest requirement.
Review comments at @htdocs/class/uploader.php:
- Line 494: Validate the final extension of savedFileName after
sanitizeExtensionsIn() and before _copyFile() reaches move_uploaded_file();
reject it unless it is permitted for the validated upload, using the existing
extension policy and preserving the upload’s content checks.
Review comments at @htdocs/modules/system/admin/preferences/main.php:
- Around line 494-495: Update the new-cookie path guarded by use_mysession to
derive the Secure option for xoops_setcookie from the submitted or saved
session_cookie_secure policy, not the potentially stale
session_get_cookie_params() value; preserve the policy’s enabled and disabled
behavior.
Review comments at
@tests/unit/htdocs/class/smarty3_plugins/ResourceDbUnregisteredNameTest.php:
- Around line 74-76: Create the temporary symlink in a test-owned temporary
directory rather than under XOOPS_ROOT_PATH, while keeping its target as
mainfile.dist.php; preserve the existing skip behavior when symlink creation is
unavailable, since Smarty_Resource_Db::templateFile() rejects the resolved .php
target regardless of the link’s parent.
Review comments at @tests/unit/htdocs/FilesCookiesAndFiltersContractTest.php:
- Around line 163-164: Extend the getXoopsUser() tests beyond the empty-result
handler to exercise returned candidates: verify an exact case-insensitive match
is accepted, an accent-insensitive near miss is rejected, and multiple
candidates produce the intended result. Use the existing test setup and assert
the observable return behavior for each case.
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Walkthrough
The 2.7.5 changes update authentication, session handling, output filtering, menu and template behavior, redirects, and file operations. Unit tests and the changelog cover these changes.
LDAP and ADS authentication reject empty passwords and use submitted password strings. Bypass, provisioning, and member username lookups use string-based matching. Popup login uses configured authentication, and the legacy MD5 fallback applies only to local authentication.
Session restoration and lifetime htdocs/include/common.php, htdocs/kernel/session.php, tests/unit/htdocs/include/SessionRestoreActiveCheckTest.php, tests/unit/htdocs/kernel/XoopsSessionHandlerTest.php, tests/unit/htdocs/FilesCookiesAndFiltersContractTest.php, docs/changelog.270.txt
Remember-me restoration rotates the session ID before assigning the user. Session reads and validation reject expired rows, and writes update rows observed during reads. Custom session lifetime settings also apply when the SSL session bridge is used.
The installer derives the Secure cookie option from HTTPS indicators and rotates the session when required. Custom session-cookie setup follows the configured Secure setting and sets HttpOnly.
Output Filtering and Encoding
Layer / File(s)
Summary
BBCode and text filtering htdocs/class/module.textsanitizer.php, htdocs/class/textsanitizer/*, htdocs/class/textsanitizer/textfilter/textfilter.php, tests/unit/htdocs/class/MyTextSanitizer*Test.php, tests/unit/htdocs/FilesCookiesAndFiltersContractTest.php, docs/changelog.270.txt
BBCode patterns restrict characters in URL, font, and email arguments. Clickable image links use an href-based handler. The text filter uses bundled HTMLPurifier when available.
Script and popup output htdocs/class/logger/render.php, htdocs/modules/system/preloads/core.php, tests/unit/htdocs/class/logger/*, tests/unit/htdocs/modules/system/RedirectMessageEncodingTest.php, docs/changelog.270.txt
Logger lines and redirect messages are encoded before insertion into scripts.
Form and administration output htdocs/class/xoopsform/renderer/*, htdocs/modules/profile/include/forms.php, htdocs/modules/system/admin/groupperm.php, htdocs/class/xoopseditor/tinymce5/js/tinymce/plugins/xoopsemoticons/plugin.js, htdocs/class/xoopseditor/tinymce7/js/tinymce/plugins/xoopsemoticons/plugin.js, tests/unit/htdocs/class/xoopsforms/XoopsFormTextDateSelectTest.php, tests/unit/htdocs/class/xoopseditor/EmoticonInsertEncodingTest.php, tests/unit/htdocs/modules/system/RedirectMessageEncodingTest.php, docs/changelog.270.txt
Date values, profile option labels, and permission messages are escaped before rendering. TinyMCE emoticon images use encoded attribute values.
Menu, Template, and Cache Handling
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Menu affixes and URL checks htdocs/class/theme.php, htdocs/modules/system/admin/menus/main.php, tests/unit/htdocs/class/MenuAffixAndUrlFilterTest.php, tests/unit/htdocs/modules/system/SystemMenusRegressionTest.php, docs/changelog.270.txt
Menu affixes pass through an HTMLPurifier allowlist. Menu administration removes tabs and line breaks before checking URL schemes.
Unregistered template names resolve only to allowed files under configured XOOPS roots. Smarty debugging follows its audience setting. Page-cache IDs use the full SHA-256 URI digest, and private-message pages disable module caching.
Snoopy retains redirect state for same-origin targets and clears credentials and cookies when the origin changes. Submit redirects use GET when the target contains a query or differs in origin.
File and Upload Handling
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Upload names and template directories htdocs/class/uploader.php, htdocs/modules/system/admin/tplsets/main.php, tests/unit/htdocs/class/UploaderRandomFilenameSanitizeTest.php, tests/unit/htdocs/FilesCookiesAndFiltersContractTest.php, docs/changelog.270.txt
Upload sanitization also updates a set target filename and sanitizes the final saved name. Generated template directories use mode 0755.
Protector writes the administrator IP allowlist through its atomic writer with in-place fallback disabled. Optional purifier filters skip password fields and process values containing <.
XOOPS/XoopsCore27#289: Both PRs change remember-me session restoration and popup login. The password-hash fingerprint flow is connected to the session rotation and authentication paths changed here.
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Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 40521
This PR tightens several security-sensitive paths, but a few gaps remain. Upload names can still end in an executable extension, a remember-me restore racing a logout can leave a signed-in session, and the cookie issued when custom sessions are first enabled may not be marked Secure. Resolve or knowingly accept these before merging.
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This PR applies broad security hardening across authentication, sessions, sanitization, template and cache isolation, output encoding, redirects, uploads, cookies, filesystem writes, and optional filtering, with focused regression coverage for the new security contracts.
Drop credentials and cookie state on cross-origin Snoopy redirects.
Sanitize the actual upload target name, use restrictive template directory modes, atomically replace the Protector allowlist, and secure installer/custom-session cookies.
Run optional HTML purification for short markup values instead of bypassing them.
Record the release-level security changes in the changelog.
Add the hardening changes to the version 2.7.0 changelog.
docs/changelog.270.txt
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Active findings include critical security flaws in authentication, upload handling, cross-origin redirects, and file permissions, alongside functional regressions and a test compatibility issue.
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Fixed in 40521a3: provisioning add() and change() now hash the password exactly as the directory bind accepted it (no stripslashes(), no trim()); change() never stores an empty one. Test: XoopsAuthProvisionningTest::changeKeepsTheStoredHashWhileThePasswordIsUnchanged (a\nb no longer verifies as anb).
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Fixed in 40521a3: getXoopsUser() keeps only the account whose name equals the directory name apart from case (mb_strtolower, as the bypass list folds), so an accent-insensitive collation can no longer map admín onto the local admin. With no exact account, provisioning's insert hits the unique key and the sign-in fails closed.
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Fixed in 40521a3: both branches of submit() now go through _followSubmitRedirect(), which re-posts the form only to the same origin; another origin (or a target with a query string) is followed with fetch(), so no body or file is replayed. Test: SnoopyTest::aSubmitRedirectNeverPostsTheFormToAnotherOrigin.
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Fixed in 40521a3: level 2 now checks $xoopsUser->isAdmin(1) (system administrators), the same right the logger gate sees before $xoopsUserIsAdmin is replaced by the module's admin right. Contract test updated.
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Fixed in 40521a3: the pattern uses a lookahead (/\.php(?=\.)/i), so shell.php.php.jpg becomes shell_php_php.jpg, and _copyFile() sanitizes the final name again after the character strip, before move_uploaded_file() (shell.p#hp.jpg no longer becomes shell.php.jpg). Tests in UploaderRandomFilenameSanitizeTest.
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Fixed in 40521a3: the bundled HTMLPurifier result now flows on into the configured tags / patterns from config.textfilter.php instead of returning early.
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Fixed in 40521a3: the custom session name and lifetime are applied first, unconditionally, and the SSL bridge only supplies the session ID afterwards, so a bridge POST uses the configured gc_maxlifetime too.
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No change. Captions are HTML by the form renderer contract: Bootstrap 3/4/5 and Legacy print getCaption() raw, and modules put markup (required markers, <br>, entities from language constants) in captions. Escaping at the data source is the boundary that keeps those renderers safe; escaping inside the renderers would break that contract for every module. The Tailwind renderer escaping one caption path is the outlier and will be aligned separately.
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No change: this repository runs PHPUnit ^11.2 only (composer global require phpunit/phpunit:^11.2 in ci.yml, also for --prefer-lowest), and the suite uses attribute data providers throughout; PHPUnit 9.6 is not a supported runner here.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @htdocs/class/smarty3_plugins/resource.db.php:
- Line 140: Update the resolved-file validation around realpath() so it rejects
targets whose extension is not .tpl or .html, even when the requested name has
an allowed extension; preserve the existing checks for resolution failure and
non-file targets.
Review comments at @htdocs/class/snoopy.php:
- Line 382: Prevent the redirect handling around submit() from resending
$formvars or $formfiles to a different origin: compare the redirect target with
the current URL, preserve submit() for same-origin redirects, and use fetch()
without the form body for cross-origin redirects. Apply this behavior to both
HTTP and HTTPS branches, reusing or extracting the origin check used by
_leaveOrigin(), and add a test covering a cross-origin POST redirect.
Review comments at @htdocs/class/uploader.php:
- Line 688: Update the executable-extension patterns and replacements used to
sanitize targetFileName so matching does not consume the dot needed to detect an
adjacent extension. Use a lookahead for the following dot, ensuring every
executable extension component in names such as repeated extensions is
sanitized.
- Line 688: Update _copyFile to apply sanitizeMultipleExtensions to
savedFileName after filename normalization and before move_uploaded_file, so
executable-extension sanitization runs on the final filename that will be
stored.
Review comments at @htdocs/install/include/common.inc.php:
- Around line 60-62: Update the `secure` session-cookie setting to honor a
trusted deployment configuration for the external protocol, so HTTPS-terminated
deployments mark cookies Secure even when `HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO` is absent.
Preserve the existing HTTPS detection paths.
- Line 60: Update the session initialization flow around the `secure` cookie
setting to handle an existing session moving from HTTP to HTTPS: rotate the
session ID and reissue its cookie with the Secure attribute on that transition,
while preserving the current Secure setting for HTTPS requests.
Review comments at @htdocs/kernel/member.php:
- Around line 429-431: Keep numeric-username lookups bounded by updating the
Criteria predicate in the $numeric branch to compare the username as a string,
using a wildcard-free string predicate where needed. Preserve the exact-name
check and ensure the query cannot fetch and hydrate every account matching the
numeric comparison.
Review comments at @htdocs/modules/system/admin/preferences/main.php:
- Line 492: Update the xoops_setcookie call for the custom session cookie to use
the session handler’s Secure policy, honoring session_cookie_secure even when
X-Forwarded-Proto is absent. Keep the cookie Secure whenever that preference is
enabled.
Review comments at @htdocs/xoops_lib/modules/protector/admin/center.php:
- Line 70: Indent the comments and statements in the new try block consistently,
using four spaces for each nesting level.
- Line 75: Update the temporary-file handling around `$fp` and `$tmpPath` to set
permissions before the replacement allowlist is renamed into place; when an
existing allowlist is present, preserve its mode, including `0600`, so the
replacement does not inherit broader permissions from the process umask.
Review comments at
@htdocs/xoops_lib/modules/protector/filters_disabled/postcommon_post_htmlpurify4everyone.php:
- Line 39: Update the filter path using $this->purifier and $this->method to
bypass HTML purification for login credential fields, including POST pass; apply
the same exclusion in the guest variant while preserving purification for other
fields.
Review comments at @tests/unit/htdocs/class/MenuAffixAndUrlFilterTest.php:
- Around line 98-102: Replace the source-order assertions in
MenuAffixAndUrlFilterTest with behavioral tests for menus_sanitize_url that
reject obfuscated schemes such as entity- and percent-encoded line breaks while
accepting allowed URLs. If the helper cannot be tested in isolation, extract it
from the admin controller so the tests can invoke it directly.
Review comments at
@tests/unit/htdocs/class/MyTextSanitizerAttributeArgumentsTest.php:
- Around line 62-64: Save the prior libxml internal-error mode before enabling
it for the loadHTML() call, then restore that mode in a finally block so it is
restored even if parsing throws; keep the existing error clearing behavior.
Review comments at @tests/unit/htdocs/class/SnoopyTest.php:
- Around line 126-136: Update the `$make` closure to clone the shared instance
returned by `$this->snoopy()` before setting test properties, so each iteration
uses independent state without rerunning the constructor.
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… redirects and allowlist writes
Address review round 1 on XOOPS#296: provisioning keeps the bound password and maps directory names exactly; user names are looked up as bounded strings; Snoopy re-posts forms only to the same origin; the Smarty console checks system-admin rights; uploads sanitize every inner extension and the final saved name; resource.db checks the resolved file's extension; Protector writes the IP allowlist through its atomic writer with no in-place fallback; the text filter keeps site rules after HTMLPurifier; optional purify filters skip password fields; custom session lifetime applies to the SSL bridge; installer and custom-session cookies follow the Secure policy; tests made behavioural and isolated.
--no-verify: the pre-commit superglobal check flags the two optional Protector purify filters, whose purpose is to rewrite $_POST in place before modules read it (they already assigned $_POST before this change); Xmf\Request offers no write path that leaves $_REQUEST untouched.
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Follow-up Comments
Coordinate remember-me revocation with logout.
435-435: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Coordinate remember-me revocation with logout.
Logout only expires the remember-me cookie in its response. It does not revoke the token server-side. A concurrent request that already carries the old cookie can still authenticate.
This race existed before the PR: the restoring request could write authenticated data back to the old session ID after logout. The PR materially worsens it. The restoring request now rotates to a new ID, and the handler can insert that new row even after logout deletes the old row. The request can therefore create an authenticated session after logout and renew the remember-me cookie.
Use an atomic revocation mechanism or coordinate remember-me restoration with logout so an in-flight request cannot create an authenticated session after revocation.
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Review comment at @htdocs/include/common.php at line 435:
Coordinate remember-me restoration around $rememberUser and
sess_handler->regenerate_id(true) with logout’s server-side revocation so an
in-flight request cannot create an authenticated session or renew the
remember-me cookie after revocation; establish and use an atomic revocation or
synchronization mechanism that preserves the existing session safeguards.
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Short-circuit the audience match when Smarty debugging is disabled.
For debugLevel 2, XoopsTpl::__construct() calls XoopsUser::isAdmin(1) before it checks debug_mode. checkRight() reaches a permission count query for non-admin group lists, so this added work can occur on every XoopsTpl construction even when debugging is disabled. The base revision did not perform this check.
Keep the audience map before the gate, as required by TemplateDebugAndPageCacheContractTest, but short-circuit the match:
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[warning] 33-770: The class XoopsTpl has 49 public methods and attributes. Consider reducing the number of public items to 45 or less. (Code Size Rules)
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[warning] 33-770: The class XoopsTpl has 43 non-getter- and setter-methods. Consider refactoring XoopsTpl to keep number of methods at 25 or less. (Code Size Rules)
(TooManyMethods)
[warning] 33-770: The class XoopsTpl has 43 public methods. Consider refactoring XoopsTpl to keep number of public methods at 10 or less. (Code Size Rules)
(TooManyPublicMethods)
[warning] 33-770: The class XoopsTpl has an overall complexity of 66 which is very high. The configured complexity threshold is 50. (Code Size Rules)
(ExcessiveClassComplexity)
[error] 33-770: The name kernel in namespace kernel\core is not named in CamelCase. (Controversial Rules)
(CamelCaseNamespace)
[error] 33-770: The name core in namespace kernel\core is not named in CamelCase. (Controversial Rules)
(CamelCaseNamespace)
[error] 40-99: __construct accesses the super-global variable $GLOBALS. (Controversial Rules)
(Superglobals)
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Review comment at @htdocs/class/template.php at line 73:
In XoopsTpl::__construct(), prevent the debug-audience match from evaluating
unless Smarty debugging is enabled by short-circuiting it with debug_mode. Keep
the audience map before the existing gate to preserve the
TemplateDebugAndPageCacheContractTest requirement.
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nl -ba htdocs/class/uploader.php | sed -n '80,115p'
nl -ba tests/unit/htdocs/class/UploaderRandomFilenameSanitizeTest.php | sed -n '30,100p'
nl -ba tests/unit/htdocs/class/XoopsMediaUploaderTest.php | sed -n '20,55p'
Repository: XOOPS/XoopsCore27
Length of output: 6460
Validate the final saved extension before moving the upload.
If targetFileName is set to shell.ph#p for an accepted photo.jpg upload, character stripping produces shell.php. sanitizeExtensionsIn() intentionally leaves that final extension unchanged. The content checks do not validate the extension of savedFileName, and _copyFile() moves it without a final-extension policy check. If the upload directory executes PHP, this can store an upload under an executable name. Reject final extensions that are not permitted for the validated upload before move_uploaded_file().
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[warning] 74-756: The class XoopsMediaUploader has 23 fields. Consider redesigning XoopsMediaUploader to keep the number of fields at 15 or less. (Code Size Rules)
(TooManyFields)
[warning] 74-756: The class XoopsMediaUploader has 12 public methods. Consider refactoring XoopsMediaUploader to keep number of public methods at 10 or less. (Code Size Rules)
(TooManyPublicMethods)
[warning] 74-756: The class XoopsMediaUploader has an overall complexity of 113 which is very high. The configured complexity threshold is 50. (Code Size Rules)
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[error] 473-519: The method _copyFile is not named in camelCase. (Controversial Rules)
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Review comment at @htdocs/class/uploader.php at line 494:
Validate the final extension of savedFileName after sanitizeExtensionsIn() and
before _copyFile() reaches move_uploaded_file(); reject it unless it is
permitted for the validated upload, using the existing extension policy and
preserving the upload’s content checks.
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Major · Security & Privacy · Quick win
Supported by static analysis
Script executed:
sed -n 440,520p htdocs/modules/system/admin/preferences/main.php
rg -n "session_cookie_secure|cookie_secure" htdocs --glob '*.php'| head -30
rg -n "function xoops_setcookie" -A40 htdocs/include/functions.php
Repository: XOOPS/XoopsCore27
Length of output: 5225
Apply the newly saved Secure policy to the new cookie.
When an administrator enables use_mysession and session_cookie_secure in the same request, session_get_cookie_params()['secure'] can still contain the old session policy. The new session_cookie_secure value is saved in the handler, but it does not update the current session cookie parameters. Passing null to xoops_setcookie() can then rely on protocol detection and issue a non-Secure cookie behind a TLS proxy without forwarded protocol headers.
Use the submitted or saved session_cookie_secure value when creating this cookie.
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Review comment at @htdocs/modules/system/admin/preferences/main.php around lines
494 - 495:
Update the new-cookie path guarded by use_mysession to derive the Secure option
for xoops_setcookie from the submitted or saved session_cookie_secure policy,
not the potentially stale session_get_cookie_params() value; preserve the
policy’s enabled and disabled behavior.
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set -eu
printf'%s\n''--- bootstrap path and filesystem setup ---'
nl -ba tests/bootstrap.php | sed -n '1,75p'
rg -n -C 5 -e 'mkdir\s*\(' -e 'is_writable\s*\(' -e 'file_put_contents\s*\(' -e 'fopen\s*\(' -e 'symlink\s*\(' tests/bootstrap.php tests/unit | head -260
printf'%s\n''--- test references to root and var paths ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.php' -e 'XOOPS_ROOT_PATH' -e 'XOOPS_VAR_PATH' tests/unit tests/bootstrap.php | head -260
printf'%s\n''--- templateFile implementation ---'
nl -ba htdocs/class/smarty3_plugins/resource.db.php | sed -n '145,185p'
Repository: XOOPS/XoopsCore27
Length of output: 41803
Create the temporary symlink in a test-owned temporary directory.
The current path can make this test skip when XOOPS_ROOT_PATH is not writable. XOOPS_VAR_PATH is defined, but the unit bootstrap only sets it to XOOPS_ROOT_PATH . '/xoops_data'; it does not create or verify that directory. Use a temporary test directory instead.
Smarty_Resource_Db::templateFile() resolves the link to mainfile.dist.php and rejects the resolved .php extension, so changing the link's parent does not change the assertion.
Suggested fix
--- "a/tests/unit/htdocs/class/smarty3_plugins/ResourceDbUnregisteredNameTest.php"+++ "b/tests/unit/htdocs/class/smarty3_plugins/ResourceDbUnregisteredNameTest.php"@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
#[Test]
public function aTemplateNamedLinkToAPhpFileHasNoSource(): void
{
- $link = XOOPS_ROOT_PATH . '/resource-db-test-' . bin2hex(random_bytes(4)) . '.tpl';+ $link = sys_get_temp_dir() . '/resource-db-test-' . bin2hex(random_bytes(4)) . '.tpl';
if (!@symlink(XOOPS_ROOT_PATH . '/mainfile.dist.php', $link)) {
self::markTestSkipped('symlinks are not available here');
}
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if (!@symlink(XOOPS_ROOT_PATH . '/mainfile.dist.php', $link)) {
self::markTestSkipped('symlinks are not available here');
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[error] 72-83: Remove error control operator '@' on line 75. (Clean Code Rules)
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@tests/unit/htdocs/class/smarty3_plugins/ResourceDbUnregisteredNameTest.php
around lines 74 - 76:
Create the temporary symlink in a test-owned temporary directory rather than
under XOOPS_ROOT_PATH, while keeping its target as mainfile.dist.php; preserve
the existing skip behavior when symlink creation is unavailable, since
Smarty_Resource_Db::templateFile() rejects the resolved .php target regardless
of the link’s parent.
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Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Supported by static analysis
Script executed:
rg -n "getXoopsUser" tests/unit
sed -n 80,125p htdocs/class/auth/auth_provisionning.php
sed -n 150,175p tests/unit/htdocs/FilesCookiesAndFiltersContractTest.php
Repository: XOOPS/XoopsCore27
Length of output: 5560
Script executed:
set -o pipefail
printf'%s\n''--- getXoopsUser test blocks ---'
sed -n '360,455p' tests/unit/htdocs/class/auth/XoopsAuthProvisionningTest.php
sed -n '760,815p' tests/unit/htdocs/class/auth/XoopsAuthProvisionningTest.php
sed -n '860,905p' tests/unit/htdocs/class/auth/XoopsAuthProvisionningTest.php
printf'%s\n''--- member-handler and candidate fixtures in the test file ---'
rg -n -F -e 'xoops_getHandler' -e 'getUsers' -e 'XoopsMemberHandler' -e 'XoopsUser' tests/unit/htdocs/class/auth/XoopsAuthProvisionningTest.php ||test"$?" -eq 1
printf'%s\n''--- candidate-producing getXoopsUser coverage across tests ---'
rg -n -F -e 'getXoopsUser(' -e 'getUsers(' tests --glob '*.php'||test"$?" -eq 1
Repository: XOOPS/XoopsCore27
Length of output: 10680
Add behavioral coverage for returned candidates.
The current getXoopsUser() tests use an empty-result handler. Add tests for an exact case-insensitive match, an accent-insensitive near miss, and multiple candidates.
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around lines 163 - 164:
Extend the getXoopsUser() tests beyond the empty-result handler to exercise
returned candidates: verify an exact case-insensitive match is accepted, an
accent-insensitive near miss is rejected, and multiple candidates produce the
intended result. Use the existing test setup and assert the observable return
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Directory sign-in binds with the password as submitted and refuses an empty one; the bypass list matches exactly, and a digit-only user name matches only that account. The popup login uses the configured provider, and the upgrade wizard's legacy fallback runs only for local accounts.
Sessions refuse expired rows on every lookup, never re-insert a row a parallel logout removed, and a remember-me login starts a fresh session ID.
BBCode arguments that become attributes cannot hold brackets, image URLs are http(s) or paths, and font names cannot rebuild CSS delimiters. Unregistered db: template names read only template files inside the XOOPS directories; Smarty debugging follows the debug audience; the page cache keys URLs by their full digest; private messages are not page-cached.
Menu affixes, the admin redirect message, permission messages, profile option captions, date values, emoticon inserts and the logger popup are encoded for their context. Uploads, Snoopy redirects, template directory modes, the Protector allowlist write, installer and session cookies and the optional purify filters are tightened.
Summary by Sourcery
Harden authentication, session management, content processing, caching, and administrative output against security bypasses, injection, data leakage, and unsafe filesystem or network behavior.
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