I guess I’m on a security hardening binge for 2019, since I’ll share a hot-off-the-presses security hardening measure from Sitecore today. I don’t want to say too much about the vulnerability, but this article explains in general terms and applying it to all Sitecore server roles for version 8.2 through any current 9 releases is emphasized as the best practice. I’d do it at the next opportunity.
I created a gist with the PowerShell necessary to apply this patch, just update line #8 with the path to your Sitecore website:
Our team has internal automation taking the above a bit further and using another layer of abstraction, and that’s secret Rackspace sauce I won’t share publicly, but the snippet above should have your environment patched in just a few seconds.
One of the key elements to the patch involves an update to the /sitecore/admin/logs.aspx page which, if you dig into it, reveals a grip-load of additional C# validation logic and other stuff going on . . .
There’s a lot to unpack in there if you’re curious, but suffice it to say that Sitecore’s keeping all your bases covered and isn’t trusting user input (using a broad interpretation of that principle).
