[ postfixadmin-Feature Requests-1839070 ] wrap templates into functions

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Feature Requests item #1839070, was opened at 2007-11-27 00:52
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Category: Core
Group: SVN (please specify revision!)
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 3
Private: No
Submitted By: Christian Boltz (christian_boltz)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: wrap templates into functions

Initial Comment:
Template files should be renamed to *.php to avoid that they are downloadable from any postfixadmin installation.

Initially suggested by Jan Örnstedt (ornstedt) in
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1838327&group_id=191583&atid=937964

Note: When we do this, we also have to add a check for a constant (not: variable) and exit if it is not set.
Something like "define postfixadmin=1" in common.php.
Reason: Otherwise attackers could execute the templates and maybe do unexpected things with them.

Note 2: Ideally, all template code should be wrapped into functions. This allows better control of global variable usage.

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>Comment By: Christian Boltz (christian_boltz)
Date: 2010-02-18 13:29

Message:
The remaining part (wrap templates into functions for better control on
global variables) was solved by switching to smarty templates in the
meantime. Therefore I consider this request as implemented.

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Comment By: Christian Boltz (christian_boltz)
Date: 2007-12-02 20:23

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GingerDog renamed the template files in the meanwhile.

A security check against direct access to the templates is needed, because
with *.php template files an attacker is able to find out the path of your
postfixadmin installation ("Undefined variable: PALANG in
/path/to/postfixadmin/templates/users_vacation.php on line 25") which makes
things worse than before :-(

I just prepended all template files with (as one line)
    <?php if( !defined('POSTFIXADMIN') ) die( "This file cannot be used 
    standalone." ); ?>
and added
    define('POSTFIXADMIN', 1);
to common.php.
Commited to SVN r256

Advantage over checking $_SERVER or another variable: Constants can't be
injected via register_globals.


The remaining part in this feature request is "wrap all templates into
functions" - updating the summary...

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Comment By: Jan Örnstedt (ornstedt)
Date: 2007-11-27 14:32

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Borrowed from another project...

/**
 * security check to prevent hackers from directly accessing this file
 */
if (strstr($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"],"sendmail.php")) {
        print "Why do you want to do that?";
        exit;
}


And a .htaccess file
order allow,deny
deny from all

Cheers
Jan


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