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judy at Web2Market  
#1 Posted : Thursday, November 9, 2023 8:12:35 AM(UTC)
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We have a 9.0.6 site where product descriptions have been disappearing and I have put in logging in about 45 places to figure out where it is happening and who is doing it.
On the first day of logging, we had a description disappear via an edit via CMS store side and the username was an anonymous guid- the user id was one that bots use.
Is there any constraint on saving edits from store side other than hiding the sections that can be edited? I'm wondering if maybe they somehow were able to bypass the code that saves the edited portion.
I looked at the user in the pageviews and it was a post on the page with useragent of Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

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Katie S  
#2 Posted : Thursday, November 9, 2023 3:00:36 PM(UTC)
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Hi Judy,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. About 2 months ago, this happened to a client of ours as well. There were about a dozen product descriptions just missing. I never could figure it out and it happened just one time with one client so I never looked into further.

I have alerted the dev team. This is obviously serious, and I thank you for providing this information.

Thanks for your support!

Katie
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shaharyar  
#3 Posted : Friday, November 10, 2023 4:02:36 AM(UTC)
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Hi Judy,

Quote:
I looked at the user in the pageviews and it was a post on the page with useragent of Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36


Can you please share the URL of the page on which you suspect the post request was sent?
judy at Web2Market  
#4 Posted : Friday, November 10, 2023 7:04:40 AM(UTC)
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Well, I'm glad in a way that it wasn't just me. I almost didn't post this because I thought I wouldn't be believed.

Here is the entry from pageview table. I have taken the cms widget off the front side of the store so you can't test or anything.
2023-11-08_16-06-08.png (21kb) downloaded 12 time(s).

I don't really want to post the url of the site in case it is picked up by someone who wants to hack it.
Here is the log entry (part of description omitted)
Debug: No description for ProductId: 7366 edited by d3f8eb21-c7de-48a3-954a-5bfd14e6d4c1 on 11/8/2023 8:53:35 PM. Old description was <h2>10-Inch Network Display with Active Imaging HD Sonar!</h2>
<p><b> “See more and catch more” with Lowrance’s HDS PRO!... Edited via CMS Edit Description
Here is where I put in the code

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult ProductDescription(ProductDescriptionModel model)
{
var product = _productRepo.Load(model.ProductId);
//jme 110723 log and email missing description
string oldDescription = product.Description;
string newDescription = "";
string username = AbleContext.Current.User.UserName;
string context = "CMS Edit Description";
product.Description = model.EditableData;
_productRepo.Save(product);
newDescription = product.Description;
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(newDescription) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(oldDescription))
{
W2M_ProductHelper.LogMissingDescription(product, username, oldDescription, context);
W2M_ProductHelper.SendMissingDescriptionEmail(product.Id, username, oldDescription, context);
}
return Json(new { Successful = true, ContentId = product.Id });
}
judy at Web2Market  
#5 Posted : Wednesday, November 15, 2023 6:52:07 AM(UTC)
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Even through I had taken the CMS layout widget out of the baselayout, someone was still able to delete the description. Maybe the page was cached somewhere. Anyway, yesterday I commented out the guts of the method above so that no product changes were saved and we haven't got any new anonymous edits since then. I'm hoping that fixed it for once and all.
shaharyar  
#6 Posted : Wednesday, November 15, 2023 7:01:54 AM(UTC)
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Hi Judy,

Sorry about the problems related to the description being edited anonymously. Please follow the steps to fix the issue.

1- Open file \Website\Controllers\ProductController.cs
2- Search for
Code:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult ProductDescription(ProductDescriptionModel model)

3- Replace with
Code:
[AbleAuthorize(Roles = "System,Admin,Manage Catalog")]
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult ProductDescription(ProductDescriptionModel model)

4- Compile the code


Regards
Katie S  
#7 Posted : Thursday, November 16, 2023 2:10:18 PM(UTC)
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Hi Judy,

We're working on patches. I'll get you one for 9.0.6 as soon as possible.

Thanks for your support!

Katie
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