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Require MySQL proxy authentication and default to loopback - #540
The experimental MySQL proxy currently accepts arbitrary credentials and listens on all network interfaces. This change requires configured credentials and defaults the listener to 127.0.0.1.
The proxy now:
Verifies credentials before running any SQL, including the initial database selection.
Authenticates with caching_sha2_password by default. Older clients can use mysql_native_password when the account is configured for it. Like MySQL, a client that picks another method is switched to the account's method, and a client that can't switch gets error 1251.
Closes rejected connections, discards queued commands, and excludes client requests and response data from debug logs.
Accepts an explicit IPv4 or IPv6 bind address through the CLI or PHP API.
Reads CLI passwords from WP_MYSQL_PROXY_PASSWORD or a password file, which can also be a pipe such as /dev/stdin, with strict argument validation.
It also limits what a single client can do. The timeouts and the connection limit match MySQL's defaults:
Refuses login packets over 16 KB and allows at most 151 open connections.
Closes connections that don't log in within 10 seconds, stay idle for 8 hours, stop for 30 seconds in the middle of a request, or stop accepting a response for 60 seconds.
Never waits for a client to read, so one client that stops reading can't stall the others.
Joins packets that a client splits and caps a message at 16 MB, the default of MySQL clients, instead of running a truncated query.
Closes the connection on COM_QUIT, refuses empty command packets, and keeps internal error details out of client errors, including PHP errors inside the SQLite driver.
Quotes the database name in COM_INIT_DB and reports an unknown database there as error 1049, with the adapter's reason in the log.
Regression coverage checks malformed and fragmented logins, replay attempts, queued commands, credential logging, clients that stop reading, and connections through the MySQL CLI, PDO, and MySQLi. CI runs the proxy suite on PHP 7.2 and 8.5.
Compatibility
Existing callers must supply credentials. PHP callers must pass the account as a MySQL_Authentication, in the authentication option of MySQL_Proxy or as an argument of MySQL_Session. CLI callers must supply --user and a password source. Callers that need a network listener must explicitly set its bind address.
Clients that can't use caching_sha2_password need a mysql_native_password account. These include PDO and MySQLi on PHP below 7.4.4, and clients without pluggable authentication, such as Node's mysql package. Use --auth-plugin=mysql_native_password, or pass mysql_native_password as the third MySQL_Authentication argument.
The CLI port option is now -P, as in MySQL clients. -p is no longer accepted.
TLS remains unsupported. Authentication does not encrypt queries or results; remote connections need a protected transport such as an SSH tunnel.
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New Features
Added username and password authentication with support for caching SHA-2 and native-password authentication.
Added password-file and environment-variable credential options.
Added configurable IPv4/IPv6 bind addresses and authentication settings.
Added connection limits and timeouts, with improved handling of slow clients.
Bug Fixes
Improved handling of malformed, incomplete, oversized, and fragmented MySQL packets.
Prevented credentials and internal error details from appearing in logs or client responses.
Corrected default last-insert-ID behavior.
Documentation
Updated CLI and PHP usage guidance, including credential requirements, options, defaults, and network exposure.
The MySQL proxy now requires credentials and supports configurable authentication plugins and IPv4 or IPv6 listener addresses. It validates authentication and protocol messages, applies connection and timeout limits, and updates session command handling. The pull request adds tests and supporting configuration for these changes.
The CLI parses and validates account credentials, password sources, bind address, and port options. The proxy receives the authentication and listener settings. Documentation, runtime requirements, workflow setup, and test processes reflect these options.
The session verifies credentials for supported authentication plugins and can request a plugin switch. Protocol decoders reject malformed or truncated fields. Tests cover authentication results, plugin switching, and malformed input.
The proxy performs nonblocking client I/O, tracks deadlines, and refuses connections beyond its configured limit. Tests cover timeout behavior, pending writes, disconnects, and activity by another client while a response is pending.
Handle commands and report errors packages/mysql-proxy/src/class-mysql-session.php, packages/mysql-proxy/src/class-mysql-result.php, packages/mysql-proxy/src/Adapter/class-sqlite-adapter.php, packages/mysql-proxy/tests/WP_MySQL_Session_Command_Test.php, packages/mysql-proxy/tests/WP_MySQL_SQLite_Adapter_Test.php
The session assembles messages and handles database selection, command closure, and size limits. Internal exception details are logged rather than returned to clients. SQLite adapter errors and result insert-ID defaults are updated.
sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant MySQL_Session
participant MySQL_Authentication
Client->>MySQL_Session: Send handshake response
MySQL_Session->>MySQL_Authentication: Verify credentials and challenge response
MySQL_Authentication-->>MySQL_Session: Return verification result
MySQL_Session-->>Client: Return authentication result
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Some internal error messages can still reach clients of the proxy, and reading a password from a pipe fails in CI. Fix these before merging. The option-parsing edge case is minor.
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Consider throttling failed logins when the listener is not on loopback.
verify() returns at once, and reject_authentication() closes the connection with no delay. A client can reconnect and try another password right away. The only limits are MAX_CONNECTIONS and LOGIN_TIMEOUT, and neither slows repeated attempts. The default 127.0.0.1 listener reduces this risk. The documented --bind-address=0.0.0.0 and :: options remove that protection.
The proxy is single-threaded, so a blocking sleep() in the session would stall every client. Use one of these options instead:
Record failed attempts per peer address in MySQL_Proxy. Hold rejected sockets until a short deadline before closing them. Refuse new connections from a peer address that exceeds a failure threshold.
At minimum, state in the README that a network-exposed proxy has no brute-force protection and needs a strong password or a firewall.
Based on learnings: "Flag password-check code paths that have no rate-limiting, delay, or lockout mechanism as a security gap."
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Review comment at @packages/mysql-proxy/src/class-mysql-authentication.php
around lines 97 - 119:
Document that network-exposed listeners configured through bind-address options
such as 0.0.0.0 or :: do not provide brute-force protection, and advise using a
strong password or firewall; do not add blocking delays to verify() because the
proxy is single-threaded.
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- Around line 97-119: Document that network-exposed listeners configured through
bind-address options such as 0.0.0.0 or :: do not provide brute-force
protection, and advise using a strong password or firewall; do not add blocking
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Add a bind_address option and --bind-address flag for explicit IPv4 or IPv6 listeners. Reject invalid addresses and include the address in the startup log.
Verify challenge responses against a configured account. An account uses one
authentication plugin, caching_sha2_password by default, with mysql_native_password
available for clients that need it. Reject failed or malformed logins before
selecting a database, discard queued commands, and close the connection.
MySQL_Proxy takes the account as a MySQL_Authentication, as MySQL_Session does,
so callers can check it before creating an adapter, and the plaintext password
never reaches the proxy.
Require CLI credentials through a password file or environment variable. Keep
client requests and response data out of debug logs, and cover authentication,
startup, and client behavior with regression tests.
Protocol references:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/mysql-server/latest/page_caching_sha2_authentication_exchanges.htmlhttps://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/mysql-server/latest/page_protocol_connection_phase_authentication_methods_native_password_authentication.html
Reject a packet larger than 16 KB while the client is unauthenticated, so
a partial login packet cannot make the session buffer up to 16 MB.
Close a connection that has not completed a login within 10 seconds, which
matches the default MySQL connect_timeout. Without it, idle connections held
the proxy's file descriptors indefinitely.
The command built "USE <name>" from the client's bytes, so a name was parsed
as SQL instead of an identifier. Reuse the quoting that the login path already
applies, so a name with a backtick, a space, or a semicolon stays a name.
The port was -p, which every MySQL client reads as the password. Someone
pasting "-psecret" set the port instead. The port is now -P, and -p is an
unknown option, so a password passed that way is rejected, not misread.
The session kept serving after a quit, so a client that never closed the socket
held it open forever. MySQL closes the connection itself.
Track why a session closes, so a quit is logged as a quit while a failed login
still stands out as an error.
A payload of exactly 16 MB - 1 means the message continues in the next packet.
Each packet was treated as a whole message, so a larger query was cut at that
boundary and its prefix was run on its own.
Cap an assembled message at 16 MB and answer MySQL's 1153 past it, so joining
packets cannot let one connection buffer without limit.
Reading the command byte of an empty packet raised a PHP warning per packet, and
a deprecation on PHP 8.5, so a client could flood the log with them. Answer
MySQL's 1835 and close the connection instead.
PHP type errors carry the absolute path of the calling file, so the server's
layout could reach any authenticated client. Answer a plain 1105 and log the
detail instead.
Refuse a connection past 151 open ones with MySQL's 1040 error, so the proxy
keeps serving instead of running out of file descriptors. 151 is MySQL's own
max_connections default.
COM_INIT_DB passed the adapter's error to the client, so selecting a missing
database returned 1105 with the adapter's message, while the login returned
MySQL's 1049 for the same name.
Select the database the same way in both places, so both answer 1049 and the
adapter's details stay in the log. Unlike the login, a failed COM_INIT_DB keeps
the connection open.
The login timeout only covered clients that had not logged in yet, so a
logged-in client could stay connected without sending anything and keep one of
the connection slots forever.
Give every connection a single deadline: LOGIN_TIMEOUT until it logs in, then
IDLE_TIMEOUT after each request. The idle limit matches MySQL's wait_timeout
default of 8 hours. Data from a client that has not logged in does not extend
its login deadline.
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Review comments at @packages/mysql-proxy/bin/wp-mysql-proxy.php:
- Around line 55-60: Update the option-value parsing flow so a value taken from
the next argument is treated as missing if that token starts with “-”; do not
consume that token, and preserve support for values supplied with the
--option=value form.
- Line 127: Update the password-file handling around `$password =
file_get_contents( $password_file )` to rely on the read result instead of
`is_readable()`, which rejects stdin streams; treat a `false` result as a read
failure before using the password. Update the pipe test to pass `php://stdin` as
the password source.
Review comments at @packages/mysql-proxy/src/Adapter/class-sqlite-adapter.php:
- Line 45: Update the error handling in SQLite_Adapter::handle_query around
is_internal_error so only explicitly client-safe query errors return their
messages; route other causes, including internal Exceptions, through the
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Reject an option value that starts with - when it comes from the next token.
Line 55 takes the next argument as the value without checking its prefix. --database --port=5 stores --port=5 as the database path. The port flag is lost, and SQLite_Adapter then creates a file named --port=5. --user --auth-plugin=x sets the account name to --auth-plugin=x in the same way.
None of these options need separate-token values that begin with -. Report a missing value in that case. Users can still pass such a value with the --option=value form.
Based on learnings: a parser that consumes the next token must report a missing value when that token begins with the option prefix.
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Update the option-value parsing flow so a value taken from the next argument is
treated as missing if that token starts with “-”; do not consume that token, and
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Read the password source directly and use php://stdin in the pipe test.
is_readable() returns false for both /dev/stdin and php://stdin, although file_get_contents('php://stdin') succeeds. The current precheck rejects the pipe test before reading. A failed read can also be cast to an empty password, so check the actual read result.
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- if ( ! is_readable( $password_file ) || is_dir( $password_file ) ) {- fwrite( STDERR, "Error: --password-file must name a readable file.\n" );- exit( 1 );- }- $password = file_get_contents( $password_file );+ $password = @file_get_contents( $password_file ); // phpcs:ignore WordPress.PHP.NoSilencedErrors.Discouraged+ if ( false === $password ) {+ fwrite( STDERR, "Error: --password-file could not be read.\n" );+ exit( 1 );+ }
[warning] 127-127: PHP Warning: file_get_contents(/dev/stdin) failed because the file does not exist. This prevented the CLI authentication test from reading the password from stdin.
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Review comment at @packages/mysql-proxy/bin/wp-mysql-proxy.php at line 127:
Update the password-file handling around `$password = file_get_contents(
$password_file )` to rely on the read result instead of `is_readable()`, which
rejects stdin streams; treat a `false` result as a read failure before using the
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WP_MySQL_On_SQLite::query() wraps non-PDOException throwables with their original message. SQLite_Adapter::handle_query() accepts that message unless the cause is an Error. An internal Exception from the ALTER TABLE schema-builder path can therefore reach MySQL_Session::process_query(), which sends it to the client. Return only explicitly client-safe query errors and route other causes through the generic-error path.
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Update the error handling in SQLite_Adapter::handle_query around
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Summary
The experimental MySQL proxy currently accepts arbitrary credentials and listens on all network interfaces. This change requires configured credentials and defaults the listener to
127.0.0.1.The proxy now:
caching_sha2_passwordby default. Older clients can usemysql_native_passwordwhen the account is configured for it. Like MySQL, a client that picks another method is switched to the account's method, and a client that can't switch gets error 1251.WP_MYSQL_PROXY_PASSWORDor a password file, which can also be a pipe such as/dev/stdin, with strict argument validation.It also limits what a single client can do. The timeouts and the connection limit match MySQL's defaults:
COM_QUIT, refuses empty command packets, and keeps internal error details out of client errors, including PHP errors inside the SQLite driver.COM_INIT_DBand reports an unknown database there as error 1049, with the adapter's reason in the log.Regression coverage checks malformed and fragmented logins, replay attempts, queued commands, credential logging, clients that stop reading, and connections through the MySQL CLI, PDO, and MySQLi. CI runs the proxy suite on PHP 7.2 and 8.5.
Compatibility
Existing callers must supply credentials. PHP callers must pass the account as a
MySQL_Authentication, in theauthenticationoption ofMySQL_Proxyor as an argument ofMySQL_Session. CLI callers must supply--userand a password source. Callers that need a network listener must explicitly set its bind address.Clients that can't use
caching_sha2_passwordneed amysql_native_passwordaccount. These include PDO and MySQLi on PHP below 7.4.4, and clients without pluggable authentication, such as Node'smysqlpackage. Use--auth-plugin=mysql_native_password, or passmysql_native_passwordas the thirdMySQL_Authenticationargument.The CLI port option is now
-P, as in MySQL clients.-pis no longer accepted.TLS remains unsupported. Authentication does not encrypt queries or results; remote connections need a protected transport such as an SSH tunnel.
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