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Pull Request Overview
This PR adds an additional OGNL injection sink for the com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport.getText method to improve security analysis coverage in Struts2 applications.
Key changes:
- Adds a new sink mapping for
ActionSupport.getText(String)method - Documents the addition in the change notes
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| File | Description |
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| java/ql/src/change-notes/2025-08-25-ognl-additional-sink.md | Documents the new OGNL injection sink addition |
| java/ql/lib/ext/struts2.model.yml | Adds sink configuration for ActionSupport.getText method |
| - ["com.opensymphony.xwork2.util", "TextParseUtil", true, "translateVariablesCollection", "(char[],String,ValueStack,boolean,TextParseUtil$ParsedValueEvaluator,int)", "", "Argument[1]", "ognl-injection", "manual"] | ||
| - ["com.opensymphony.xwork2", "ActionSupport", true, "getFormatted", "(String,String)", "", "Argument[0]", "ognl-injection", "manual"] | ||
| - ["com.opensymphony.xwork2", "ActionSupport", true, "getFormatted", "(String,String)", "", "Argument[1]", "ognl-injection", "manual"] | ||
| - ["com.opensymphony.xwork2", "ActionSupport", False, "getText", "(String)", "", "Argument[0]", "ognl-injection", "manual"] |
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The boolean value should be lowercase false instead of False to maintain consistency with the YAML format used in the rest of the file.
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| - ["com.opensymphony.xwork2", "ActionSupport", False, "getText", "(String)", "", "Argument[0]", "ognl-injection", "manual"] | |
| - ["com.opensymphony.xwork2", "ActionSupport", false, "getText", "(String)", "", "Argument[0]", "ognl-injection", "manual"] |
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We probably should make this consistent with the rest of the file.
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Thanks for the PR. Your model only selects one of the overloads of getText - I see from here that there are many more. Is that what you intend, or should the other overloads be included too?
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Add an additional ognl sink