Changeset 41741

Timestamp:

10/04/2017 06:24:17 PM (7 years ago)

Author:

johnbillion

Message:

Security: Add a referrer policy header to the admin and login screens.

This sets a referrer policy of same-origin which adds hardening by preventing a referrer being sent from the admin area or login screens to other origins. This helps prevent unwanted exposure of potentially sensitive information that may be contained within URLs.

This change introduces a new filter, admin_referrer_policy, for filtering the referrer policy header value. The header can be disabled if necessary by removing the wp_admin_headers action from the admin_init and login_init hooks.

Props joostdevalk
Fixes #42036

Location:

trunk/src/wp-admin/includes

Files:

• admin-filters.php (modified) (1 diff)
• misc.php (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/wp-admin/includes/admin-filters.php

@@ -39 +39 @@
 
 // Misc hooks.
+add_action( 'admin_init', 'wp_admin_headers'         );
+add_action( 'login_init', 'wp_admin_headers'         );
 add_action( 'admin_head', 'wp_admin_canonical_url'   );
 add_action( 'admin_head', 'wp_color_scheme_settings' );

trunk/src/wp-admin/includes/misc.php

@@ -921 +921 @@
 
 /**
+ * Send a referrer policy header so referrers are not sent externally from administration screens.
+ *
+ * @since 4.9.0
+ */
+function wp_admin_headers() {
+    $policy = 'same-origin';
+
+    /**
+     * Filters the admin referrer policy header value. Default 'same-origin'.
+     *
+     * @since 4.9.0
+     * @link https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Referrer-Policy
+     *
+     * @param string $policy The referrer policy header value.
+     */
+    $policy = apply_filters( 'admin_referrer_policy', $policy );
+
+    header( sprintf( 'Referrer-Policy: %s', $policy ) );
+}
+
+/**
  * Outputs JS that reloads the page if the user navigated to it with the Back or Forward button.
  *