Plugins that talk to Nextcloud, Paperless or an AI provider used to need
the password or key in their own settings, readable by the plugin and
stored in the browser. A plugin can now declare credentials in its
manifest and send requests "with credential X" through the server:
- `credentials` in the manifest: admin scope (secret and server from the
admin config) or user scope (the user connects an account; the server
address is fixed or chosen by the user)
- `/api/plugin-secrets`: the user's connected accounts, encrypted per
mail account under `PLUGIN_SECRETS_DIR`; listing never returns secrets
- `/api/plugin-proxy`: adds the secret and forwards only to the
credential's own origin, through the SSRF guard unless the admin set
the server up or listed it in `PLUGIN_PROXY_PRIVATE_ORIGINS`; no
redirects or WebDAV moves to other servers, streamed bodies capped at
512 MB up and 2 GB down, 300 requests a minute per plugin, 8 at once
per user, and one audit line per request without paths or bodies
- a capture mode that stores a secret from a sign-in response (Nextcloud
Login Flow v2) and removes it from what the plugin gets back
Several endpoints answered anyone with what fingerprints a deployment:
`/api/health?detailed=true` (versions, memory), the update status
(exact version and the text of a pending security advisory, even with
`loginShowVersion` off), `/api/plugins` (installed plugins and the hosts
they may reach), the admin policy (push relays, sidebar app URLs,
plugin lists) and `/api/config` (every domain each server serves).
Visitors without a session now get:
- the plain liveness answer from `/api/health`;
- the update status only where the login page shows the version, and
never the advisory text;
- a 401 from `/api/plugins`, which the client only syncs after signing
in;
- the policy without plugin lists, push relays and sidebar apps, marked
`X-Bulwark-Policy-Scope: public`; the client fetches the full policy
once it signs in;
- server domain lists only when servers are picked by domain.
A mailbox session, a remembered session cookie or the admin session
counts as signed in. Deployments without a session secret cannot tell
sessions apart and keep the old answers.
The plugin runtime received the active locale (init payload + 'locale-change')
and plugins could declare a `locales` map, but none of it was usable: the
locales never reached the runtime, and buildPluginApi exposed no i18n. So
plugin code calling pluginApi.i18n.t(...) (as the External Link Warning plugin
does) always got undefined and fell back to English.
Thread plugin locales end to end and surface an i18n API:
- ServerPlugin gains `locales`; the upload route persists manifest.locales
(alongside configSchema/settingsSchema), and /api/plugins surfaces it to the
client so it flows registry -> client -> sandbox host-bridge -> runtime.
- runtime sets __PLUGIN_LOCALE__ at init (not only on later 'locale-change')
and buildPluginApi exposes `i18n.locale` + `i18n.t(key, vars)` resolving
against the plugin's declared locales (manifest.locales) with English/key
fallback and {placeholder} interpolation.
Lets any sandboxed plugin localize its strings from its manifest.
Linus Rath
dealerweb