[Typo3-dev] Security Problem - HTML

Christoph Moeller chris at byters.de
Tue Sep 23 16:31:12 CEST 2003


René Fritz schrieb:

> So why not make the security stronger than to make workarounds. Which means to 
> include the IP from where a user logged in, in the current session.
> 
> Then an attacker have to steal the cookie AND have to simulate the IP which is 
> really hard to do.

Good one - /me taking the wooden board off of his forehead...
Should be fairly more easy than fiddling with regexp's to do malicious 
html code detection/notification.

Is that a big deal in terms of code changes? I personally don't exactly 
know at what places the BE cookie is checked for.

Chris





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