Closed Bug 683880 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Install addons reports host name of current page, not site hosting addon

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(Firefox :: Security, defect)

6 Branch
x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 358266

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(Reporter: colinmkeith, Unassigned)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 Build ID: 20110811165603 Steps to reproduce: When clicking on a link to install an add-on, the warning message displays the name of the site hosting the link, not the name of the site hosting the actual add-on. For example to install the latest Firebug beta there is a link in http://blog.getfirebug.com/ to the add-on which is on the site http://getfirebug.com/. FFx prompts you to allow "blog.getfirebug.com". This is potentially a security issue since users are being prompted to trust the site that is referring you to the add-on, not the site actually hosting the add-on. This seems similar to the report in bug 294450. The answer there was that issue was an intentional design, but I don't see a good reason why you would intentionally ask a user to trust a site when the software is actually coming from a different site. Tested on FFx 6.0.1 / Win7 and FFx 6.0.1 / Kubuntu 11.04 Actual results: I was prompted to trust blog.getfirebug.com, the referring site, not getfirebug.com, the site actually hosting the add-on Expected results: I should have been prompted to trust the site that is actually hosting the add-on, getfirebug.com, not the site that is referring me there.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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