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Confine Media Manager and image resizer paths to their roots - #1553

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The Media Manager's thumbnail and crop handlers now run every path they are given through MediaLibrary::validatePath(), the rule the rest of the widget and the media library already apply, so no handler in the widget is held to a looser one than its neighbours. The image resizer matches a path against its configured sources on a path boundary and accepts only paths that stay inside the source folder it matched — settled there rather than in each caller. Crop & Insert keeps the folder and file name it was asked for, takes the stored file's extension from the image the resizer produced, and holds the destination to cms.fileDefinitions.defaultExtensions, the same extension allowlist that uploading and renaming a media item already use.

Thumbnail validation lives inside generateThumbnail(), next to the widget's existing broken-thumbnail handling, rather than in the handler above it. The browser requests thumbnails in batches, so an item the media library will not accept renders that one item's broken thumbnail and leaves the rest of the batch alone.

onGoToFolder(), onChangeView(), onSetFilter() and onSetSorting() take the folder to act on through a single guard rather than reading it from the request each. All four passed Input::get('path') straight to setCurrentFolder(string $path), so a request that omitted the key, or sent an array, raised a TypeError rather than acting on the library root. Fixes #1582.

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  • A crop destination takes the extension of the image the resizer produced; a requested extension is ignored, so cropping to a different extension than the source's no longer works.
  • A crop destination is checked against cms.fileDefinitions.defaultExtensions. Out of the box that list covers every format the resizer can produce, so nothing changes unless a site has narrowed it.
  • An empty, whitespace-only or non-string crop destination, and a crop source that is not a URL string, raise Invalid input data rather than a PHP error.
  • The batch thumbnail handler returns the widget's broken thumbnail for a media item whose name falls outside the media library's own path rules. The uploader cannot produce such a name, the sidebar preview, rename, move and crop already refuse one, and the item grid builds its thumbnails while the page renders rather than through this handler.
  • The image resizer resolves a source path only while it stays inside the source folder it matched. |resize and the image list column fall back to the value they were given, and |imageWidth/|imageHeight report the failure, as both already did for an image the resizer cannot identify.
  • A folder handler given no usable path acts on the library root, and trims the one it is given.
  • MediaManager::deduplicatePath() takes a third argument, the extension to store the file under. A subclass that overrides it has to accept the argument too. No plugin in the marketplace overrides it or subclasses the widget.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Thumbnail generation and image cropping now reject paths outside the media library or source folder, including traversal-style and malformed paths.
    • Cropped images retain their actual output format, and unsupported output types are refused.
    • Invalid crop requests, including sources that are not URLs, are rejected before files are stored.
    • Invalid thumbnail paths use the broken-thumbnail fallback, while valid paths—including nested folders and names with spaces or non-Latin characters—continue to work.
    • A refused path in a batch no longer prevents other valid items from being processed.
    • Folder navigation defaults to the library root when the path is missing, blank, or not a string.

The Media Manager's thumbnail handlers now run every path they are given through `MediaLibrary::validatePath()`, the rule the rest of the widget and the media library already apply, so no handler in the widget is held to a looser one than its neighbours. The image resizer matches a path against its configured sources on a path boundary, and accepts only paths that stay inside the source folder it matched. The Crop & Insert handler keeps the folder and file name it was asked for, takes the stored file's extension from the image the resizer produced, and holds the result to `cms.fileDefinitions.defaultExtensions`, the extension allowlist that uploading and renaming a media item already use; a request names the image to crop by its URL, so that the resizer resolves it against those same configured sources.

The thumbnail path is validated inside `generateThumbnail()`, alongside the widget's existing broken-thumbnail handling, rather than in the handler above it. The browser asks for thumbnails in batches, so one item the media library will not accept renders that item's broken thumbnail and leaves the rest of the batch alone.

Behaviour changes:

- A crop destination always uses the extension of the image the resizer produced; a requested extension is ignored, so cropping to a different extension than the source's no longer works.
- A crop destination is checked against `cms.fileDefinitions.defaultExtensions`, the allowlist that media uploads and renames already use. Out of the box that list covers every format the resizer can produce, so nothing changes; a site that has narrowed it will find crops to the formats it removed refused, the way uploading and renaming them already are.
- An empty, whitespace-only or non-string crop destination, and a crop source that is not a URL string, are now an "Invalid input data" error rather than a PHP error.
- The batch thumbnail handler returns the widget's broken thumbnail, rather than a generated one, for a media item whose name falls outside the media library's own path rules. The Media Manager's uploader cannot produce such a name, and the sidebar preview, rename, move and crop already refuse one. The item grid builds its thumbnails while the page renders rather than through this handler, so a folder of such files looks the same as it did before.
- The image resizer resolves a source path only while it stays inside the configured source folder it matched, and matches those sources on folder boundaries. `|resize` and the `image` list column fall back to the value they were given, as they already do for an image the resizer cannot identify; `|imageWidth` and `|imageHeight` report the failure, as they already do for the same.

Tests: `System\Tests\Classes\ImageResizerTest::testRefusesPathsOutsideTheMatchedSource`, `::testRefusesARelativeSegmentThatWouldHaveStayedInsideTheSource` and `::testAcceptsPathsInsideTheMatchedSource`; the new `Backend\Tests\Widgets\MediaManagerThumbnailPathTest` (including `::testOneRefusedPathInABatchStillThumbnailsTheRestOfTheBatch` and `::testAnItemOutsideTheLibraryPathRulesOnlyLosesItsOwnThumbnail`) and `Backend\Tests\Widgets\MediaManagerCropDestinationTest` (including `::testCropRefusesASourceThatIsNotAUrl` and `::testTheStockExtensionAllowlistCoversEveryFormatTheResizerProduces`).
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ImageResizer now requires source-path boundary matches and rejects matched paths with traversal segments. MediaManager validates thumbnail paths and crop inputs. Crop destinations use the produced image format and must pass file-type validation. Navigation handlers use the library root when the request omits path. Tests cover rejected paths and inputs, batch thumbnail behavior, and accepted thumbnail and crop paths.

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Possibly related issues

  • Issue 1582: The issue reports missing path values causing a TypeError in four Media Manager handlers. This change adds defaults for those handlers.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 92a6e

Folders or crop destinations whose names end in whitespace can resolve to a different path. The change is otherwise mergeable with this bounded issue acknowledged or fixed.

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The reviewed changes generally tighten path and file-type controls. No introduced security failure was established, but behavior with custom image sources and storage configurations remains uncertain.

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  • inferred — The shared URL-to-disk rule can affect images under configured media, resized, theme, plugin, module, upload, and custom sources. The reviewed crop handler’s persistent destination is the media library; the supplied evidence does not establish deployment-wide reachability or tenant scope.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The request controls the crop source URL and destination path. The handler validates the destination, while ImageResizer decodes the URL path once, matches it to a configured source on a slash boundary, rejects exact parent segments in the remainder, and checks that the disk path exists.
  • inferred — These checks block the tested direct and encoded traversal forms, but the supplied source and tests do not prove containment for every custom overlapping source or storage adapter that might reinterpret residual encoding. No PR-worsened escape path was established.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The newly possible blocked-type outcome can leave a reusable resizer artifact without a media-library item. The earlier successful crop path also retained a resizer artifact, so this partial state alone does not establish increased attacker-controlled storage exposure.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — For deployments with custom image sources or storage adapters, verify containment after their path handling and cover overlapping-source and residual-encoding cases in boundary tests.
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`deduplicatePath()` already splits a path and rebuilds it from its parts, so it takes the extension to store under rather than having the caller hand-build the path around it. The crop call site is one line again.

`onGoToFolder()`, `onChangeView()`, `onSetFilter()` and `onSetSorting()` passed an unguarded `Input::get('path')` to `setCurrentFolder(string $path)`, so a request omitting `path` raised a TypeError instead of acting on the library root. Fixes #1582.

Data providers are static, for PHPUnit 10 on 1.3, and `removeMedia()` drops the temp storage root with `File::deleteDirectory()` rather than mixing in an `rmdir()`.
flush() dispatches `<event>_pushed` and removes no listener, so the fixture theme could still be overridden by a plugin listening on cms.theme.getActiveTheme.
`Input::get('path', '')` only covered an absent key: `path[]=x` still reached `setCurrentFolder(string $path)` as an array and raised the same TypeError. The four folder handlers now read it through `getRequestedFolder()`, which answers with the library root for anything that is not a string, and trims what is.

Tests: the crop matrix in `testCropStillWritesLegitimateImages` duplicated `acceptedCropSourceProvider` in the other file, so it keeps only what is unique to it; the repeated crop request and the resizer/broken thumbnail assertions are helpers; docblocks that restated their method name are gone.
getRequestedFolder() was inserted between the docblock and the method it described.

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Minor · Preserve whitespace in nonblank media paths. · MediaManager.php:738

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Preserve whitespace in nonblank media paths.

MediaLibrary::validatePath() permits whitespace in names. If a folder is named /album , getRequestedFolder() changes its path to /album, so navigation opens a different folder or fails. The crop destination has the same problem for a filename that ends in a space. Check trim($path) === '' for the root fallback, but pass nonblank paths to validatePath() unchanged.

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Update getRequestedFolder and the crop destination path handling so they check
trim($path) === '' only to select the root fallback, then pass nonblank paths
unchanged to MediaLibrary::validatePath; preserve trailing whitespace in folder
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- Line 738: Update getRequestedFolder and the crop destination path handling so
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nonblank paths unchanged to MediaLibrary::validatePath; preserve trailing
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