feat(cpg): taint a field where it is assigned — the field half of 5.11

`_delete_files()` takes no parameters. CVE-2023-6559 arrives as a FIELD,
written by one method and read by another:

    public function __construct( ..., array $attachments = array() )
        $this->attachments = $attachments;          // half one ends here
    protected function _delete_files()
        foreach ( $this->attachments as $file )     // half two starts here
            unlink( $file );

Both halves were already in the graph. Only the join was missing, and the key
it joins on is the literal `$this->attachments`, written identically at both
ends -- so this is a second question asked with the query that already exists,
not an edge a frontend has to invent.

A read of `$this->F` is a source when some assignment to the same literal
`$this->F` in the same file is fed by an unsanitized flow from a seed. Scoped
three ways so a field name common to every class ever written cannot become a
wormhole: only fields the sink scope reads, only assignments in the same file,
and the right-hand side must itself be reachable from a source.

The receiver could then leave `parameterNodes` -- the precision fix refused
two commits ago, now sound, because the path it was standing in for is carried
by the field it actually travels through:

                          before                     after
  mwwpform vulnerable     1, from `this`             1, from $this->attachments
  mwwpform fixed          0                          0
  pmpro vulnerable        15 -- 4 named, 11 receiver 18 -- all named or field
  pmpro fixed             1, receiver-sourced        1
  VAmPI                   4 entailed                 4 entailed, unchanged

CVE-2023-23488 is still at class.memberorder.php:936 and CVE-2023-6559 at
class.mail.php:259. Every finding now names the value it followed instead of
naming the object.

Three things cost a measurement each, recorded in the task:

  * A summary must carry the SANITIZATION status of the half it summarises,
    not merely its reachability. Without that clause,
    `$this->sqlQuery = "..." . esc_sql($x) . "..."` reads as tainted -- and
    PMPro builds most of its queries that way, so the fixed side went from 1
    finding to 13. That is the pair no longer separating, which is the only
    number that matters.
  * Two-phase `reachableBy` then `reachableByFlows` is SLOWER, not faster:
    183s -> 256s. Running the analysis twice costs more than skipping path
    reconstruction saves. Reverted.
  * Memoizing per field rather than per file took it to 97s, about 1.6x the
    pre-field cost for that class, because only fields some region reads are
    worth the flow query.

`inScope` is factored out of `sinkCalls` so the field sources are scoped to
exactly the same place as the sinks, rather than a second copy of those three
branches drifting from the first.

841 tests pass; gates byte-identical; VAmPI unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
This commit is contained in:
Marius Ciepluch
2026-09-09 19:42:20 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent e41d6dd7ea
commit dcdbe322a1
3 changed files with 151 additions and 34 deletions
+23 -1
View File
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@
- _Requirements: 4.2, 4.3, 9.1_
- _Depends: 5.7_
- [ ] 5.11 Two-stage taint with a link table — the detection strategy for both structural misses
- [~] 5.11 Two-stage taint with a link table — the detection strategy for both structural misses
- "Structurally impossible" is a verdict, not a plan, and both PHP structural misses turn out to be the
SAME shape: two halves of a path, joined by a key that is a literal in the source text.
@@ -634,6 +634,28 @@
count down from 11 to 0 with its CVE still found.
- Order: the field half first. It is the smaller link table, it has a pinned pair of its own, and it is
what unlocks the receiver change; the hook half then reuses the same two-stage machinery.
- **Field half done 2026-09-09.** `taint.sc` gains `fieldSourceNodes`: a read of `$this->F` is a source
when some assignment to the same literal `$this->F` in the same file is fed by an UNSANITIZED flow from
a seed. The receiver then left `parameterNodes`, which is only sound because of it.
| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| `mwwpform` vulnerable | 1, sourced from `this` | 1, sourced from `$this->attachments` |
| `mwwpform` fixed | 0 | 0 |
| `pmpro` vulnerable | 15 — 4 named, 11 receiver | 18 — all named or field, CVE still at :936 |
| `pmpro` fixed | 1, receiver-sourced | 1 |
| VAmPI | 4 entailed | 4 entailed, unchanged |
Three things learned, each of which cost a measurement:
- **A summary must carry the sanitization status of its half, not just reachability.** Without that,
`$this->sqlQuery = "..." . esc_sql($x)` reads as tainted and PMPro's fixed side went 1 -> 13. That is
the pair not separating, which is the only number that matters.
- **Two-phase `reachableBy` then `reachableByFlows` is SLOWER**, not faster: 183s -> 256s. Running the
analysis twice costs more than skipping path reconstruction saves.
- Memoizing per **field** rather than per file took it to 97s, because only fields some region actually
reads are worth the flow query. Roughly 1.6x the pre-field cost for that class.
- Still open: the hook half, and the one finding that survives on PMPro's fixed side
(`saveOrder:1469 <- $this->timestamp`).
- _Requirements: 4.4, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1_
- _Depends: 5.8_