Prevent potentially dangerous behaviour within proxy script #754
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@davidlehn This PR addresses a reasonable concern and has been languishing. Could you comment or commit? |
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Whenever a user supplies a custom
"@context": "http://schema.org/"within the json-ld playground a call to a proxy script is made.This proxy script is implemented in an unsafe manner, allowing an attacker to perform XSS or CSRF attacks against the server.
I didn't find a private contact method for reporting the vulnerability, so here's directly the pull request which should harden the proxy script.
Long-term it's probably advisable to perform requests to hosts defined within
@contextcompletely client-side via JavaScript.