[dokuwiki] Re: strange behaviour on browsing back (re: kaspar's mail)

  • From: Redeeman <redeeman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:33:25 +0200

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 11:09 +0200, Andreas Gohr wrote:
> Because Kaspar asked in the other thread about his email, I'm forwrading it 
> below. I had a look at it and the screenshot, but wasn't able to reproduce 
> it and have no idea how this happened and if it is indeed a security 
> problem. My guess from looking at it would be some hiccup in Konqueror's 
> rendering engine / caching mechanism.
i havent been able to reproduce it on wiki.splitbrain.org, however i can
confirm that i can provoke this to happen with opera aswell. but as i
said, im running an old dokuwiki
> 
> Andi
> 
> 
> Kaspar's mail below:
> 
> Hello.. im writing to you in private since i believe i may have
> discovered a security related bug in dokuwiki.
> 
> i just added an article to my wiki, and then browsed abit in the wiki.
> then i used my browser(konquerors) feature to go back, but not just one
> step, i went directly alot back, to the article i added (konqueror shows
> the little arrow, so you can go alot back in current history) anyway, i
> didnt get to my article, but i got to the main page, however text in
> submit buttons(those used for edit, login, search and such) were
> "skewed". i suspect i may have gone back to a submit action, preview
> perhaps, since i did do preview alot, causing some GET/POST stuff to
> mess up in dokuwiki.
> 
> since i am probably not able to reproduce this, i have taken a
> screenshot so that you may see it, i have attached the screenshot.
> 
> my wiki is: http://wiki.kaspersandberg.com
> 
> i am not using the latest stable release of dokuwiki, since the theme
> didnt work with khtml, however, the next release seems to do, so ill
> change to that when its released.
> 
> if you need me to try some things feel free to mail back, i have not dug
> deeper into it myself though, since i dont have too terribly much time.
> 
> mvh.
> Kasper Sandberg

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