[1.6.x] Prevented data leakage in contrib.admin via query string manipulation.

This is a security fix. Disclosure following shortly.

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/tests/admin_views/tests.py b/tests/admin_views/tests.py
index 3fb80f1d76..189b0c8fc8 100644
--- a/tests/admin_views/tests.py
+++ b/tests/admin_views/tests.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from django.core.urlresolvers import get_script_prefix, reverse, set_script_pref
 from django.contrib import admin
 from django.contrib.auth import get_permission_codename
 from django.contrib.admin.helpers import ACTION_CHECKBOX_NAME
+from django.contrib.admin.views.main import TO_FIELD_VAR
 from django.contrib.admin.models import LogEntry, DELETION
 from django.contrib.admin.sites import LOGIN_FORM_KEY
 from django.contrib.admin.templatetags.admin_urls import add_preserved_filters
@@ -577,6 +578,23 @@ class AdminViewBasicTest(AdminViewBasicTestCase):
         response = self.client.get("/test_admin/admin/admin_views/workhour/?employee__person_ptr__exact=%d" % e1.pk)
         self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
 
+    def test_disallowed_to_field(self):
+        with patch_logger('django.security.DisallowedModelAdminToField', 'error') as calls:
+            response = self.client.get("/test_admin/admin/admin_views/section/", {TO_FIELD_VAR: 'missing_field'})
+            self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 400)
+            self.assertEqual(len(calls), 1)
+
+        # Specifying a field that is not refered by any other model registered
+        # to this admin site should raise an exception.
+        with patch_logger('django.security.DisallowedModelAdminToField', 'error') as calls:
+            response = self.client.get("/test_admin/admin/admin_views/section/", {TO_FIELD_VAR: 'name'})
+            self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 400)
+            self.assertEqual(len(calls), 1)
+
+        # Specifying a field referenced by another model should be allowed.
+        response = self.client.get("/test_admin/admin/admin_views/section/", {TO_FIELD_VAR: 'id'})
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
+
     def test_allowed_filtering_15103(self):
         """
         Regressions test for ticket 15103 - filtering on fields defined in a
@@ -2204,10 +2222,9 @@ class AdminSearchTest(TestCase):
         """Ensure that the to_field GET parameter is preserved when a search
         is performed. Refs #10918.
         """
-        from django.contrib.admin.views.main import TO_FIELD_VAR
-        response = self.client.get('/test_admin/admin/auth/user/?q=joe&%s=username' % TO_FIELD_VAR)
+        response = self.client.get('/test_admin/admin/auth/user/?q=joe&%s=id' % TO_FIELD_VAR)
         self.assertContains(response, "\n1 user\n")
-        self.assertContains(response, '<input type="hidden" name="t" value="username"/>', html=True)
+        self.assertContains(response, '<input type="hidden" name="%s" value="id"/>' % TO_FIELD_VAR, html=True)
 
     def test_exact_matches(self):
         response = self.client.get('/test_admin/admin/admin_views/recommendation/?q=bar')