4 responses to “Is InformationWeek right? Are most all Drupal sites insecure?”

  1. John Wilkins

    We’re way ahead of you! :-)

    http://drupal.org/node/170310 addresses the SSL-based session cookie issue. Dries committed it 3 days ago to Drupal 7 and Drupal 6. And Drupal 5 will be patched shortly.

    Here’s the comments I wrote for the patch:

    “To prevent session cookies from being hijacked, a user can configure the SSL version of their website to only transfer session cookies via SSL by using PHP’s session.cookie_secure setting. The browser will then use two separate session cookies for the HTTPS and HTTP versions of the site.” And the HTTPS session cookie will be protected from hijacking.

    You’ll still need to configure HP’s session.cookie_secure setting on the SSL version of the website, as Drupal doesn’t enforce that.

  2. Christefano

    There’s a patch that just landed in core that addresses this particular issue in Drupal:

    http://drupal.org/node/170310

    Mike Perry probably mentioned Drupal since that’s what his website is running.

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