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  1. Wicket
  2. WICKET-1782

Protection against CSRF (cross-site request forgery) attacks

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Resolved
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 1.3.4
    • 1.3.5, 1.4-RC1
    • wicket
    • None

    Description

      Currently Wicket doesn't include a uniform and automatic solution against CRSF vulnerability or OWASP-A5 vulnerability [1].

      In order to solve CSRF is necessary to avoid static HTML and create dynamic or aleatory HTML per user.

      Two posible solutions:

      1. Include a random token (aleatory parameter) to each url (link or form). The name and the value of this parameter can be the same per user or change per request (more secure but perform worse). It seems that can be implemented creating other implementation of IRequestCodingStrategy interface.

      2. Encrypt all urls (links and form urls) using "Request Coding Strategy" strategy offered currently by wicket (CryptedUrlWebRequestCodingStrategy). Provide a security factory to use a different key per user or add some aleatory data to encrypted data (for example user jessionid). (SunJceCrypt, bundled in Wicket, is vulnerable to CSRF because obtained encrypted string is the same for all the users)

      [1] http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2007-A5

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            ivaynberg Igor Vaynberg
            gorka Gorka Vicente
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