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🛡️ Sentinel: [CRITICAL] Fix Content Spoofing via Fallback Logic

🚨 Severity: CRITICAL
💡 Vulnerability: FindMatchingUrlIndex contained a fallback mechanism that blindly mapped unknown URLs from external lists to existing VRCUrl slots. This allowed external configuration files to apply arbitrary captions to pre-approved images, enabling Phishing or Misinformation attacks.
🎯 Impact: An attacker controlling the external list could make the world display trusted images (e.g., "Official Rules") with malicious captions (e.g., "Go to evil.com for free credits"), leveraging the user's trust in the visual content.
🔧 Fix: Removed the cyclical fallback logic. The system now enforces exact string matching for all URLs. If a URL in the external list is not present in the pre-approved predefinedUrls list, it is ignored (Fail Closed).
Verification: Verified with reproduce_spoofing.py which confirmed that unknown URLs now result in a lookup failure (-1) instead of being mapped to index 0.

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This change removes the fallback mechanism in `FindMatchingUrlIndex` (in both `ImageLoader.cs` and `VideoURLProvider.cs`) that would cyclically assign unknown URLs from external lists to existing `VRCUrl` slots. This behavior violated the "Fail Closed" principle and allowed external configurations to spoof captions for unrelated pre-approved images.

Fixes a Critical security vulnerability where malicious actors could mislead users by associating trusted images with arbitrary, misleading captions.
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@AEmotionStudio AEmotionStudio marked this pull request as ready for review January 21, 2026 01:54
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