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Comment	> I've committed the Trean part of the changes. I hesitate the commit > the jsonrpc implementation, though, because of security concerns. I > don't know if there is going to be an easy way to fix this, but I > don't think we can roll it out if it's possible to exploit. > > > > Here's the concern: if a user is using TreanMarks and is > authenticated, another website with malicious javascript code could > use XmlHttpRequest to POST jsonrpc requests to Horde without the user > knowing. This actually goes beyond Trean since the user's > authentication to Horde would be used; any API method would be > callable. > > > > My first thought of how to handle this is that instead of using HTTP > basic authentication, we need to have the jsonrpc backend use a real > session, with a session key stored in the extension and included in > requests as a POST parameter (like the Horde_Form token usage for > CSRF protection) for checking. > > > > Thoughts?
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