Proposal: hide DjangoCMS version in toolbar for non-admin users

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Sylvain Fankhauser

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Nov 12, 2016, 5:42:40 AM11/12/16
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Hello,

The current behaviour of the toolbar is to show the DjangoCMS version on hover, which means you can go to most DjangoCMS websites, add a "?edit" querystring, and see if they're using an outdated DjangoCMS version. I think that security-wise it would be better to only show the version when the user is logged in and is a staff user.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Sylvain

Iacopo Spalletti

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Nov 12, 2016, 7:15:50 AM11/12/16
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I am +1 on this.
Hiding information, while not a security measure per se, makes life
harder to any malicious visitor.
Even if it's easy to change the ?edit trigger, I don't see any reason to
expose the CMS version to unauthenticated users.

Iacopo

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czpython

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Nov 12, 2016, 4:30:29 PM11/12/16
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Thanks for following up :)

+1

Angelo Dini

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Nov 14, 2016, 3:18:44 AM11/14/16
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