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Apply the relation, list and reorder behaviours' own scoping on their write paths - #1554
Three controller behaviours decide what a user may act on, then resolve the ids posted back without consulting that decision.
Relation. Posted ids (manage_id, record_id, foreign_id, checked[]) resolved against the related model rather than through the relation, so a user managing one parent's relation could reach another parent's records, and the handlers that attach an existing record had no server-side notion of the selectable set — ignoring the manage.conditions and manage.scope options that narrow it. Separately readOnly was consulted only while rendering, so every write handler still wrote, including the AJAX handlers of field widgets inside the relation's forms.
List.Lists::getSelectionQuery() refused a whole-query selection when the list renders no checkboxes but accepted explicit ids on the same list, so index_onDelete could be handed ids for a list offering no selection. In core that reaches the authentication audit trail: AccessLogs declares no showCheckboxes, renders only a Refresh button, and is gated by system.access_logs — "View system logs".
Reorder.onReorder() resolved record_ids and sourceNode/targetNode against the bare model, so reorderExtendQuery() narrowed the listing but not the write.
Each now resolves through the query it already uses to decide what to show. A readOnly passed to relationRender() is presentational and cannot be enforced — the client decides whether it returns — so only the relation's configuration is a control; documented in wintercms/docs#269.
Upgrade notes:
A read-only relation refuses every write handler with a 403, including drag-and-drop reordering and the FileUpload and Repeater handlers inside its forms. Rendering, paging and searching are unchanged.
readOnly counts only from the relation configuration or relationExtendConfig(); a value passed to relationRender() no longer does, and the behaviour's $readOnly property is always a boolean.
Posted record ids the relation manager does not offer are ignored, and the manage and pivot forms raise the usual "record not found". A record only the backend.list.extendRecords event injects is displayed but not manageable.
A list declaring no showCheckboxes refuses a selection however the ids arrive, so a controller driving index_onDelete from its own UI must declare it.
reorderExtendQuery() narrows what may be reordered as well as what is listed.
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Bug Fixes
Read-only relations now reject changes, including edits, attachment changes, removals, pivot updates, and reordering, while remaining available for viewing.
Relation management is limited to records associated with the current relation and available through its configured list, preventing unrelated records from being modified or linked.
Reordering now affects only records available in the configured list.
Preview-mode file upload and repeater forms block write actions, while read actions and editable forms continue to work.
Lists without checkboxes no longer accept record selections, including manually submitted selections.
The relation behaviour resolved every posted record id (`manage_id`, `record_id`, `foreign_id`, `checked[]`) against the bare related model, so a manage handler could act on a record the widget's own query never offered. Handlers that operate on an existing related record now resolve it through the relation itself, including the active deferred-binding session, and the add/link/pivot-create handlers — whose whole purpose is to reach outside the relation — resolve theirs through the manage list widget's own query, which is the selection list those buttons display and the thing `manage.conditions`, `manage.scope` and `relationExtendManageWidget()` narrow. That makes the set the relation manager accepts the same as the set it offers, the way `ListController::index_onDelete()` and `Backend\Widgets\Lists::onReorder()` already validate their checked ids. A mode a handler forces now also takes precedence over the posted `_relation_mode`, since a handler forces a mode because it can only work in that one.
A relation configured `readOnly` was only consulted while rendering, so its write handlers still acted. They now refuse with a 403, matching `Backend\Widgets\MediaManager::abortIfReadOnly()`; drag-and-drop reordering is refused on the write it performs, leaving the list's `sortable` flag - which is also what presents the relation in its stored order - alone; and the manage and pivot forms are built in preview mode so the field widgets inside them inherit it. `FormWidgetBase` gains `abortIfPreviewMode()` and FileUpload's and Repeater's write handlers call it, which covers a form rendered in a preview context and a read-only relation's forms. It deliberately does not cover a field-level `disabled`: several widgets set preview mode from it so they render as not editable, but the client decides whether `disabled` comes back, so it has never been a server side control and is not made into one here. Because the relation's extra configuration round trips through the browser, it carries no `readOnly` in either direction - the relation's own configuration decides.
Behaviour changes:
- Relation write handlers refuse to act when the relation configuration says the relation is read only. Rendering, searching, filtering, sorting and paging still work, and so do the widgets' read handlers.
- Posted record ids the relation manager does not offer are ignored; the manage form raises the usual "record not found" error for one it cannot resolve.
- Drag-and-drop reordering of a read-only relation is refused with a 403. Records still display in their stored order, and the reorder handles are still drawn.
- `readOnly` in the relation configuration, or set from `relationExtendConfig()`, is the only form of it that decides whether the handlers act. `readOnly` passed to `relationRender()`, or to a `relationmanager` form field, styles that one render: it reaches the server only because the browser returns it with the relation's extra configuration, and it is no longer read from there at all. So it neither locks a writable relation nor unlocks a read-only one, and a relation the configuration declares read only cannot be reopened for writing by rendering it with `readOnly: false`.
- The behaviour's public `$readOnly` property is now always a boolean, so a relation that does not mention `readOnly` reports `false` where it used to report `null`. This matches the type the property has always documented.
- FileUpload's upload, remove, re-sort and rename handlers and Repeater's add and remove handlers refuse to act when the form or relation that built them is not editable. A `disabled` field is unchanged: those handlers behave exactly as they did before.
- A relation that has no `manage.list` and no `view.list` configuration at all now raises the same "missing configuration" error from `onRelationManageAdd` that its Link button already raised.
- A record that only the `backend.list.extendRecords` event injects into the manage list is displayed but not accepted for adding, since that event does not run for the query.
- The pivot form reports a `foreign_id` it cannot resolve through the manage list with the same "record not found" error the manage branch already raises for `manage_id`, rather than quietly falling back to an empty related model.
Tests: `Backend\Tests\Behaviors\RelationControllerScopingTest` (41), `Backend\Tests\Behaviors\RelationControllerReadOnlyTest` (46) and `Backend\Tests\FormWidgets\FormWidgetPreviewModeTest` (9, including `testDisabledFieldIsNotAServerSideControl`), with a new `Backend\Tests\Fixtures\Models\RelationBehaviorFixture` and an `assignableTo` scope on the `Database\Tester\Models\Role` fixture.
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The changes add server-side write guards for preview-mode form widgets and read-only relations. Relation record lookups now use the active relation or manage-list query, including pivot operations and deferred bindings. Reorder operations use the configured query scope. Lists reject selection requests when checkboxes are disabled. Tests cover these behaviors and writable cases.
Nested reorder under a scope that joins another table can fail or move the wrong record, and the select should be limited to the reordered model's columns before merge. A test docblock is also stale and should be corrected. The simple reorder path and the new tests are otherwise in good shape.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 264ac
The changed handlers generally narrow which records can be written and reject writes to configured read-only relations. No new security issue was established, but a pivot-save path and behavior under repeated or interrupted requests are not fully resolved.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The affected attack surface is backend AJAX requests carrying record IDs into relation and attachment writes. The examined changes constrain those writes within configured relations and forms; the supplied impact view does not establish a cross-service or deployment change.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — No introduced or worsened attack path was established. The remaining pivot raw-ID save path is a pre-existing boundary inconsistency, not a verified new finding from this PR.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The relation write guard derives from server-side relation configuration; the widget guard derives from the form's configured preview mode rather than a field's rendering-only disabled state.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Use the validated addable-ID set throughout pivot creation, including subsequent model saves, and verify mixed-ID and repeated-request behavior. This would close a pre-existing mismatch; it is not an observed regression introduced by this PR.
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Update the class docblock so that it matches the current invariant.
The docblock says that "the merge has to be monotonic". The code no longer merges readOnly from the extra config at all. Reword the docblock: readOnly comes only from the relation configuration.
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In `@modules/backend/tests/behaviors/RelationControllerReadOnlyTest.php` around
lines 245 - 259, Update the RelationController class docblock to state that
readOnly is sourced only from the relation configuration; remove the outdated
claim that the extra-config merge must be monotonic.
Remove the duplicated, contradictory test docblocks. Several tests keep an old docblock directly above a new one. Each old docblock describes the behavior before the change, which the tests now contradict.
modules/backend/tests/behaviors/RelationControllerReadOnlyTest.php#L1080-L1090: delete the first docblock, which says "the handlers must honour it".
modules/backend/tests/behaviors/RelationControllerReadOnlyTest.php#L1106-L1117: delete the first docblock, which describes the manage popup round trip.
modules/backend/tests/formwidgets/FormWidgetPreviewModeTest.php#L153-L161: delete the docblock "And so does a single disabled field...".
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In `@modules/backend/tests/behaviors/RelationControllerReadOnlyTest.php` around
lines 1080 - 1090, Remove the obsolete first docblock at
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In `@modules/backend/tests/behaviors/RelationControllerReadOnlyTest.php`:
- Around line 245-259: Update the RelationController class docblock to state
that readOnly is sourced only from the relation configuration; remove the
outdated claim that the extra-config merge must be monotonic.
- Around line 1080-1090: Remove the obsolete first docblock at
modules/backend/tests/behaviors/RelationControllerReadOnlyTest.php:1080-1090,
which says handlers must honor the returned read-only configuration. Also remove
the obsolete docblock at
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The four Writable* fixture controllers existed only to strip `readOnly`, so they share a trait, and the backend-user/unguard/postData scaffolding the three test files each repeated moves to `Backend\Tests\BackendTestCase`.
Two docblocks said the opposite of what the code does: `applyExtraConfig()` keeps only `recordUrl` and `recordOnClick`, so a `readOnly` passed to `relationRender()` is dropped in both directions rather than being honoured in the restricting one. Three stacked docblocks, where a comment had been left orphaned above another, are merged.
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Tested this on a production Winter 1.3 site (Laravel 12, PHPUnit 11), on top of wip/1.3; the patch applies cleanly.
Works as described on our real relation configs:
manage.scope on an add/remove relation: the add popup only offers scoped records, a normal add and remove still work, and a forged onRelationManageAdd with an out-of-scope id is ignored now (without the patch it gets attached).
hasMany with softDelete: another parent's record can no longer be opened (manage_id) or deleted (checked[]) from this parent; this parent's own records still open and save, including a manage form with a FileUpload widget.
readOnly relations and a relationRender(..., ['readOnly' => true]) show the same toolbar buttons as before.
One thing for 1.3: extraConfigDowngradeProvider() and writeHandlerProvider() aren't static, which PHPUnit 11 rejects ("Data Provider method ... is not static"), so those two tests error once this is merged into wip/1.3. Making both public static fixes it and still works on develop; with that change all three new test files pass on 1.3 (96 tests).
`extraConfigDowngradeProvider()` and `writeHandlerProvider()` were not static, which PHPUnit 11 rejects, so both tests error once this reaches wip/1.3. Thanks @JonasPardon for testing it there.
The explanatory docblocks are cut back too: the ones that only restated their method name are gone and the three class docblocks are about half their length.
@JonasPardon good catch, and thanks for running it on 1.3 — extraConfigDowngradeProvider() and writeHandlerProvider() are public static as of 3d0623e. The same five providers in #1555 had it too, fixed there in e5ed143.
@bennothommo fair — cut back in 3d0623e. The docblocks that only restated their method name are gone and the three class docblocks are roughly half their length.
Also fixed since your reviews: two docblocks claimed applyExtraConfig() honours a readOnly arriving in _relation_extra_config in the restricting direction. It doesn't — the allowlist keeps only recordUrl and recordOnClick, so it is dropped either way. The docs said the same thing and are corrected in wintercms/docs#269.
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Both behaviours decide what a user may act on and then resolve the ids posted back without consulting that decision, which is the same shape the relation behaviour had.
`Lists::getSelectionQuery()` refused a whole-query selection when the list renders no checkboxes but accepted explicit ids on the same list, so `ListController::index_onDelete()` could be handed ids for a list that offers no selection at all. In core that reaches the authentication audit trail: `Backend\Controllers\AccessLogs` implements `ListController`, declares no `showCheckboxes`, and is gated only by `system.access_logs`, a permission labelled "View system logs". The check moves above the branch so it covers both.
`ReorderController::onReorder()` resolved `record_ids` and `sourceNode`/`targetNode` against the bare model, so `reorderExtendQuery()` narrowed the listing but not the write. Both now resolve through `reorderScopedQuery()`, which `getRecords()` uses as well. No controller in core implements this behaviour, so it is reachable only through a plugin that scopes a reorder per user or per tenant.
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Scope relation manager records and enforce read-only relations
Apply the relation, list and reorder behaviours' own scoping on their write paths
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A scope that joins a table carrying its own `id` made the offered set ambiguous, so the reorder failed instead of moving the records it does offer. `testAScopeThatJoinsAnotherTableStillReorders` covers it.
`reorderScopedQuery()` had been inserted between `getRecords()` and the docblock describing it. The comment on `testExtraConfigCannotDisableReadOnlyInAnyShape` still described a value-shaped merge rule that no longer exists: `applyExtraConfig()` keeps only `recordUrl` and `recordOnClick`.
The suite creates backend users constantly and never checks a hash at real cost, but BCRYPT_ROUNDS was unset so every one of them paid the production work factor - 59ms a call. Locally this takes the three module suites from 140s to 89s.
The fix resolves every posted id through three shared methods, and the relation-type branches sit downstream of them, so proving a legitimate operation still works does not need repeating per relation type. One invalidation case per operation is kept, and the refusal coverage, which does need to reach each branch, is untouched: 19 of these still fail without the production change, the same 19 as before.
A scope that joins a table carrying its own `id` hydrated that key onto the record: with the join in place `find()` returned the joined row's id rather than the record's, so a nested move would have been applied to the wrong node. Reproduced at id 1 coming back as id 7.
The docblock on testRelationExtendConfigDecidesReadOnly still described a restrict-only rule for the posted extra config, which `applyExtraConfig()`'s allowlist removed.
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Three controller behaviours decide what a user may act on, then resolve the ids posted back without consulting that decision.
Relation. Posted ids (
manage_id,record_id,foreign_id,checked[]) resolved against the related model rather than through the relation, so a user managing one parent's relation could reach another parent's records, and the handlers that attach an existing record had no server-side notion of the selectable set — ignoring themanage.conditionsandmanage.scopeoptions that narrow it. SeparatelyreadOnlywas consulted only while rendering, so every write handler still wrote, including the AJAX handlers of field widgets inside the relation's forms.List.
Lists::getSelectionQuery()refused a whole-query selection when the list renders no checkboxes but accepted explicit ids on the same list, soindex_onDeletecould be handed ids for a list offering no selection. In core that reaches the authentication audit trail:AccessLogsdeclares noshowCheckboxes, renders only a Refresh button, and is gated bysystem.access_logs— "View system logs".Reorder.
onReorder()resolvedrecord_idsandsourceNode/targetNodeagainst the bare model, soreorderExtendQuery()narrowed the listing but not the write.Each now resolves through the query it already uses to decide what to show. A
readOnlypassed torelationRender()is presentational and cannot be enforced — the client decides whether it returns — so only the relation's configuration is a control; documented in wintercms/docs#269.Upgrade notes:
readOnlycounts only from the relation configuration orrelationExtendConfig(); a value passed torelationRender()no longer does, and the behaviour's$readOnlyproperty is always a boolean.backend.list.extendRecordsevent injects is displayed but not manageable.showCheckboxesrefuses a selection however the ids arrive, so a controller drivingindex_onDeletefrom its own UI must declare it.reorderExtendQuery()narrows what may be reordered as well as what is listed.Summary by CodeRabbit