rails-action-controller
Audited by Socket on Sep 22, 2026
3 alerts found:
Anomalyx2SecurityNo malicious or obfuscated payload is present. The fragment is security-related Rails documentation, but several examples are unsafe for production: hardcoded credentials, obsolete MD5 digest authentication, raw token handling, incomplete JWT and OAuth validation, verbose error disclosure, and incomplete MFA/rate-limit protections. It should be treated as instructional pseudocode and hardened before use.
No malicious or obfuscated behavior is evident. The code contains significant authorization weaknesses: unauthorized post disclosure and modification in the API, unrestricted custom state changes, possible unauthenticated comment access, and a destroy action that continues after a failed authorization check. These issues should be fixed with authentication and policy checks, scoped queries, and explicit returns or exceptions after authorization failures.
The fragment is ordinary Rails controller documentation and contains no apparent malware or malicious supply-chain behavior. The direct use of params[:sort] in order is a potential SQL injection vulnerability and should be replaced with an allowlist. Authorization should also be enforced before reading, updating, or destroying records, and serializer fields should be reviewed for unintended data exposure.