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Changeset [66ce3843d32e9f2ac3b1da20067af53019bbb034] by Michael Koziarski

Revision 66ce3843d32e9f2ac3b1da20067af53019bbb034, committed by Michael Koziarski · January 31st, 2011 @ 08:08 PM

Change the CSRF whitelisting to only apply to get requests

Unfortunately the previous method of browser detection and XHR whitelisting is unable to prevent requests issued from some Flash animations and Java applets. To ease the work required to include the CSRF token in ajax requests rails now supports providing the token in a custom http header:

X-CSRF-Token: ...

This fixes CVE-2011-0447
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/66ce3843d32e9f2ac3b1da20067af...

3 changed files

  • M actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/request_forgery_protection.rb
  • M actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/request.rb
  • M actionpack/test/controller/request_forgery_protection_test.rb