Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

#9776 closed (duplicate)

No CSRF protection for auth system logout view

Reported by: Mez Owned by: nobody
Component: contrib.auth Version: 1.0
Severity: Keywords: csrf logout
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Having looked through the documentation, it seems that there is a sorely missed point.

The logout function doesn't seem to have any form of CSRF protection that I can notice. Meaning that someone could easily place an image with the URL of http://www.yoursite.com/logout/ (or whatever the URL is) and make it so that anyone who views the page with the image on is logged out.

This to me seems a massive oversight in the system, and I can foresee times where, due to a badly configured permission system, an admin cannot easily delete offending content which has an image or something similar to this in it.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Pyth, 16 years ago

Keywords: csrf logout added
Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed

Duplicate of #7989.

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