ryandrake 1 day ago

This looks like a variation of the Scunthorpe problem[1], where a filter is applied too naively, aggressively, and in this case, to the wrong content altogether. Applying the filter to "other stuff" sent to and among the servers might make sense, but there doesn't seem to be any security benefit to filtering actual text payload that's only going to be displayed as blog content. This seems like a pretty cut and dried bug to me.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

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rurp 1 day ago

This is exactly what I was thinking as well, it's a great Scunthorpe example. Nothing from the body of a user article should ever be executed in any way. If blocking a list of strings is providing any security at all you're already in trouble because attackers will find a way around that specific block list.

chrisjj 2 hours ago

> This looks like a variation of the Scunthorpe problem[1], where a filter is applied too naively

No.

> aggressively

No.

>, and in this case, to the wrong content altogether.

Yes - making it not a Scunthorpe problem.

pmarreck 1 day ago

Correct. And a great example of it.