Harden API requestor code against malicious URLs - #1896
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Why?
If an attacker got access to a user's webhook secret (or the user wasn't validating incoming webhook signatures) and a user was calling the built-in
event_notification.fetch_related_object()method, a malicious webhook payload could cause a user integration to make an authenticated request to an attacker-controlled domain (leaking the secret key)To solve, we're being more careful during url construction to ensure user input can't be used to send requests to non-
stripe.comdomains (on a per-request basis).What?
event.idpath param infetch_event()to match the sanitation in the rest of the generated endpointsSee Also