[Zope-dev] zope.pluggableauth and "camefrom" information in login form not an absolute URL

Jan-Wijbrand Kolman janwijbrand at gmail.com
Mon Feb 7 06:15:40 EST 2011


On 2/7/11 12:04 PM, Adam GROSZER wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm not sure whether you open up a security hole there.
> Imagine that someone does a
> http://yoursite.com/@@loginform.html?camefrom=http://mysite.com
> We ended up with storing the camefrom URL in a session variable.

The redirect method in the zope publisher checks whether the redirect is 
"trusted" to go to a different host. The trusted arguments is "False" by 
default. I think will catch this situation just fine. Or doesn't it?

regards, jw



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