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fix(reports): authorize non-core report targets on create and update (24.05) - #7865

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Backport of #7864 to release.24.05. Applied cleanly; only the CHANGELOG heading needed resolving.

What changes

/i/reports/create and /i/reports/update authorized the target apps only when the effective report_type was "core". A non-core report_type names the plugin that owns the report, and those reports were inserted and updated without any authorization of the object they point at.

The authorization path already existed but was unreachable: the dashboards plugin implements /report/authorize, which checks view access to the dashboard a report renders, while the reports-side caller that invoked it (validateNonCoreUser) had been commented out.

Restores that caller and gates create and update on its result. Update authorizes the merged stored-plus-payload report, so a partial update cannot leave an unauthorized target in place and repointing an existing report is checked too. A copy is passed so the authorized flag never reaches the written document. Fails closed, matching the original intent: a report type whose plugin does not answer the event is not authorized, and only "dashboards" implements it today.

Also drops validateCoreUser, which was commented out and superseded by the inline per-app check.

Tests

Real end-to-end coverage through the HTTP endpoints with a real non-admin member: refused for a private dashboard they cannot view, allowed for one they own, the authorized flag absent from the stored report, and a core report still succeeding as a control.

Not executed locally, since the harness needs COUNTLY_TEST_API_KEY_ADMIN and COUNTLY_TEST_APP_ID. CI runs them in test-api-plugins.

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ar2rsawseen and others added 2 commits July 30, 2026 01:15
/i/reports/create and /i/reports/update authorized the target apps only when the
effective report_type was "core". A non-core report_type names the plugin that
owns the report, and those reports were inserted and updated without any
authorization of the object they point at.

The authorization path for this already existed but was unreachable. The
dashboards plugin implements /report/authorize, which checks view access to the
dashboard a report renders, while the reports-side caller that invoked it
(validateNonCoreUser) had been commented out.

Restores that caller and gates both create and update on its result. Update
authorizes the merged stored-plus-payload report rather than the payload alone, so
a partial update cannot leave an unauthorized target in place, and repointing an
existing report at a different target is checked too. A copy is passed so the
authorize flag, which is only how the dispatch returns its result, never reaches
the written document.

Fails closed, matching the original intent of the commented-out code: a report
type whose plugin does not answer /report/authorize is not authorized. Only
"dashboards" implements it today, in this repo and in countly-platform, so a
plugin adding a new report type needs to implement the event for it.

Also drops validateCoreUser, which was commented out and superseded by the inline
per-app check that uses the reports feature permission rather than plain app
membership.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Real end-to-end coverage through the HTTP endpoints with a real non-admin member,
so the whole path is exercised rather than the branch in isolation: validateCreate,
the report_type branch, the /report/authorize dispatch into the dashboards plugin,
and the insert.

- a member with reports rights but no view access to a private dashboard is
  refused when scheduling a report against it
- the same member succeeds for a dashboard they own, which proves the authorize
  dispatch resolves rather than the request simply failing
- the authorize flag does not appear on the stored report
- a core report for an app the member has rights on still succeeds, so the
  restructuring did not change the core path

Not executed locally: the harness needs COUNTLY_TEST_API_KEY_ADMIN and
COUNTLY_TEST_APP_ID. CI runs them in test-api-plugins.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Dashboard permissions are deliberately separate from app permissions: a
dashboard can be shared with a member who has no access to the apps its widgets
reference, and they are meant to be able to view it and schedule a report for
it.

The suite proved a member is refused a dashboard they cannot view, and allowed
their own, but nothing covered the case in between, which is the one a
tightening change could plausibly break. This uses the same admin-owned
dashboard the member was already refused, changing only the share, so the test
isolates the share as the deciding factor rather than app rights.

Also generalised the cleanup to delete a list of dashboards rather than two
hard-coded ids.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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