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Hi there, I have my first Rails app running and I regularly get the following "logged_exception" error message: "ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken" Has anybody an idea what might cause this problem? Could it somehow be a "time out" error (like an "AuthenticityToken" which might expire after a certain time, or something along those lines)? Any

Hello all, I''ve been trying to diagnose an issue with CSRF and Firefox specifically. I''ve got an ajax based form, using UJS (yes, I have csrf_meta_tag in my layout and I''ve tried adding the X-CSRF-Token header to the ajax beforeSend events without any luck)... The form just posts some data to an ajax method that creates, saves, and sets the session for a shopper as

Hi all, I think CSFR protection broke in rails 2.3.11. As in: it''s turned off now. I tried this in rails 2.3.10 and in 2.3.11 and 2.3.11 seems broken. >rails csrftest >cd csrftest >script/generate scaffold post title:string >rake db:migrate now I visit /posts/new in my browser, use firebug to delete or change the authenticity token, and submit the form. rails 2.3.11: all

Hello, I have been working through two books, "Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Ed." and "Ajax on Rails". I''m using Rails2.0. In both cases, I run into an authentication error when doing the examples. In AWDwR, when trying to add new information to the database (p. 68) I get ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken in AdminController#create

I have the following in my view: <% form_tag :action => ''detail'' do %> Search for Sales Order Number:<br /> <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :sales_order, :id %>&nbsp; <%= submit_tag " Go "%> <% end %> And I have the following in my controller: auto_complete_for :sales_order, :id This worked fine in 1.5, but

Hey All, I''m trying to do a simple form_for (and I also get it with form_tag) and I''m getting the following error: ActionView::TemplateError (No :secret given to the #protect_from_forgery call. Set that or use a session store capable of generating its own keys (Cookie Session Store).) on line #2 of users/new.fbml.erb: 1: <h1>Welcome To Courses, Let''s Get

I am starting to BDD. When specing the controller I want to test for object creation: it "deberia crear una nueva persona en post create" do Usuario.should_receive(:create).with({:nombre => "camilo", :clave => "secreta", :tipo => "administrador"}).and_return(@usuario) post ''create'', {:usuario => {:nombre =>

Dear Rails community, As part of a programming languages/security research group at the University of Maryland, we are building some static analysis tools for Rails applications. These tools work by taking formally specified properties of interest, and then analyzing code to verify that those properties indeed hold. Using these tools, we found some security vulnerabilities in Rails, and we would

Has anybody solved this issue. [ http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/facebooker-talk/2008-April/000552.html ] ? NameError (undefined local variable or method `controller'' for #<LeaveController:0xb7144abc>): /app/controllers/application.rb:24:in `verify_authenticity_token''

Hi folks, I am just getting into rails again after a multi-year stint of mod_perl jobs, which might grant me some newbie-indemnity for the time being - but I''ve found an issue I think warrants discussion. As discussed here - http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/RequestForgeryProtection/ClassMethods.html - the CSRF protection feature does not kick in for GET requests. This

I''m trying to create a log in in index.html, but I keep getting an error about InvalidAuthenticityToken. I understand this is something that RoR puts in the forms, and it changes regularly. The problem is that the home page in the public folder is html, and therefore static. has anyone else put a log in on their home page? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hallo, I want to test the csrf protection of my application but forgery protection is not working with jquery ajax request. I have used Unobtrusive Javascript with jquery I have removed the <%= csrf_meta_tag %> so that my application do not include authenticity token. In my view I have the following code $(function () { $(''#alert'').click(function () { $.ajax({

Maybe I am grasping the full usage of this protect_from_forgery function, but it does not seem to work for me. Imagine the following: A simple website with a user that needs to log in to do certain stuff and a closed off admin section that only certain users can access that have the is_admin field set to true. So to be clear, my User model has a login, password and is_admin. When displaying the

I am running a Rails 4 app in semi-production and I constantly get exceptions from crawler bots that use a HEAD HTTP method, which causes the CSRF protection to kick in. Shouldn''t HEAD requests normally be handled like GET requests? I am not sure if I''m just being stupid or that hit is a bug somewhere. Michiel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Hi all, My team and I are finding ourselves a little in the dark about the "CSRF Protection Bypass in Ruby on Rails" vulnerability that was announced yesterday - http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/2/8/csrf-protection-bypass-in-ruby-on-rails 1. Where is the complete Advisory? The Impact section is very unclear. Looking at the comment in the 2.3 patch mentions "Flash animations and

Release Announcements ===================== Samba 3.5.10, 3.4.14 and 3.3.16 are security releases in order to address CVE-2011-2522 (Cross-Site Request Forgery in SWAT) and CVE-2011-2694 (Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in SWAT). o CVE-2011-2522: The Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) in Samba versions 3.0.x to 3.5.9 are affected by a cross-site request forgery. o CVE-2011-2694:

Release Announcements ===================== Samba 3.5.10, 3.4.14 and 3.3.16 are security releases in order to address CVE-2011-2522 (Cross-Site Request Forgery in SWAT) and CVE-2011-2694 (Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in SWAT). o CVE-2011-2522: The Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) in Samba versions 3.0.x to 3.5.9 are affected by a cross-site request forgery. o CVE-2011-2694:

Hi, I just created a new Rails app that will be receiving some POSTed data from the outside so it must skip the verify_authenticity_token for some create actions. Although I have added: skip_before_filter :verifiy_authenticity_token I still get InvalidAuthenticityToken. In one of my other Rails app (created back in Rails 1.2.6 and updated to 2.3.2 over time) this skipping works perfectly though,

Hi all, I stuck a little bit of information on CSRF on the wiki (http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/HowToAvoidCrossSiteRequestForgery) and created a "Security Concerns" page from the home page (http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/Security+Concerns) - it would be good to have a single point of information for all know security holes and fixes (even if they aren''t Rails

Hi all, I would like to use page caching on my homepage, but also want to enable people to sign in via a modal dialog sign in form. I could have a setup in which when a user lands on the cached homepage, an Ajax GET request pulls in the whole login form so that there is a fresh authenticity token. That said, besides the additional hit to the server, the CSRF token in the head area of the page