Limit TitleExtractor to allow only Remark42 whitelisted domains #1681
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Allowed domains consist of `REMARK_URL` second-level domain (or whole IP in case it's IP like `127.0.0.1`) and `ALLOWED_HOSTS`. That is needed to prevent Remark42 from asking arbitrary servers and storing the page title as the comment.PostTitle. Previous behaviour allowed the caller of the API to create a comment with an arbitrary URL and learn the title of the page, which might be accessible to the server Remark42 is installed on but not to the user outside that network (CWE-918).
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| for _, domain := range t.allowedDomains { | ||
| if strings.HasSuffix(u.Hostname(), domain) { |
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isn't it risky a little bit? I mean can it allow ab.example.com for allowed b.example.com?
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It's a bit risky, however I see no way around for allowing case like example.org when remark42.example.com is used for Remark42 installation for comments on example.com. I think the solution here is outlining that risk in the documentation.
Also, the current case allowed requests to notexample.org if my domain is example.org (e.g. suffixes match): I've fixed that.
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Any other behaviour would be a breaking change. It's a small part of functionality so maybe a requirement for listing your domain(s) explicitly in AllowedDomains in case Remark42 runs on a separate domain is not bad.
I can alter the logic to get second-level domain only from REMARK_URL and use ALLOWED_HOSTS as-is, that seem to make sense.
Allowed domains consist of `REMARK_URL` second-level domain (or whole IP in case it's IP like `127.0.0.1`) and `ALLOWED_HOSTS`. That is needed to prevent Remark42 from asking arbitrary servers and storing the page title as the comment.PostTitle. Previous behaviour allowed the caller of the API to create a comment with an arbitrary URL and learn the title of the page, which might be accessible to the server Remark42 is installed on but not to the user outside that network (CWE-918).
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Allowed domains consist of
REMARK_URLsecond-level domain (or whole IP in case it's IP like127.0.0.1) andALLOWED_HOSTS. That is needed to prevent Remark42 from asking arbitrary servers and storing the page title as the comment.PostTitle.Previous behaviour allowed the caller of the API to create a comment with an arbitrary URL and learn the title of the page, which might be accessible to the server Remark42 is installed on but not to the user outside that network (CWE-918).
Resolves #1677.