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Shayne Urbanowski commented on SOLR-3419: ----------------------------------------- I'm not sure that this is only related to the admin UI. My security scanning tool is detecting a vulnerability related to embedding a script tag in the json.wrf, callback, group, facet or _ parameters in Solr API requests. > XSS vulnerability in the json.wrf parameter > ------------------------------------------- > > Key: SOLR-3419 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3419 > Project: Solr > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Response Writers > Affects Versions: 3.5 > Reporter: Prafulla Kiran > Priority: Minor > Attachments: SOLR-3419-escape.patch > > > There's no filtering of the wrapper function name passed to the solr search > service > If the name of the wrapper function passed to the solr query service is the > following string - > %3C!doctype%20html%3E%3Chtml%3E%3Cbody%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22x%22%20onerror=%22alert%281%29%22%3E%3C/body%3E%3C/html%3E > solr passes the string back as-is which results in an XSS attack in browsers > like IE-7 which perform mime-sniffing. In any case, the callback function in > a jsonp response should always be sanitized - > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2777021/do-i-need-to-sanitize-the-callback-parameter-from-a-jsonp-call -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org