Sensitive Cookie Without 'HttpOnly' Flag in pkp/ojs

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Reported on

Oct 7th 2021

✍️ Description

HTTPOnly attribute is not set for session cookies "OJSSID" in the application.

Proof of Concept

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Impact

When a cookie doesn’t have an HttpOnly flag, it can be accessed through JavaScript, which means that an XSS could lead to cookies being stolen. These include session cookies that can make it easier to achieve account/session takeover.

We have contacted a member of the pkp/ojs team and are waiting to hear back a year ago

Alec Smecher validated this vulnerability a year ago

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Alec Smecher

commented a year ago

Fixed: https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/issues/7373

Not necessarily a comment on this specific issue, but a heads-up that I'm going to be intentionally slow to confirm and resolve trivial reports. It looks like there's a bit of a gold rush on this platform and I don't want to encourage a flood of low-value entries.

Alec Smecher marked this as fixed with commit 9c663f a year ago

Alec Smecher has been awarded the fix bounty

This vulnerability will not receive a CVE

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