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Summary

  • replace push/tag-driven publication with reviewed release/X.Y.Z PR authorization
  • add the narrow wordpress-org/<topic> readme/assets path
  • build one verified canonical ZIP for GitHub and WordPress.org
  • enforce current-master, version, tag, maintainer, file-scope, and same-repository checks
  • open a master to develop back-sync PR after successful releases
  • pin all actions used by the new publication boundary

Verification

  • changed workflows pass actionlint
  • release-version and artifact tests: 11 passed
  • production assets built successfully under Node 16
  • release tree and ZIP verification passed
  • git diff --check passes

Merging this setup PR installs the workflow only. It does not create a tag, GitHub release, or WordPress.org deployment.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Release Process
    • Releases are published through approved, versioned pull requests after checks for version consistency, changelog dates, package contents, and release readiness.
    • Successful releases publish the verified package to GitHub and WordPress.org and open a back-sync pull request to develop.
  • WordPress.org Updates
    • Readme and plugin-asset updates use dedicated pull requests limited to those files, with authorization and content checks before publication.
    • Other pull requests targeting master are redirected to develop.
  • Documentation
    • Updated contribution and deployment guidance to reflect the release and WordPress.org update process.

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The PR adds release and WordPress.org metadata publication workflows for changes targeting master. It adds pull-request routing and validation, release-version checks, package publication, and release back-sync to develop.

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Publication workflows

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release metadata and version validation
.github/release-profile.json, bin/validate-release-version.js, package.json, tests/unit/bin/validate-release-version.test.js, tests/unit/bin/verify-release-artifact.test.js
The release profile specifies branches, version and changelog sources, artifact rules, and channels. The validator checks version formats and consistency, version ordering, and changelog dates. Tests cover these checks and include composer.json in release artifact fixtures.
Route and classify master pull requests
.github/workflows/pr-target-check.yml, .github/workflows/publication-gate.yml, readme.md
Eligible release and metadata pull requests can target master; other pull requests are retargeted to develop. The gate classifies publication paths, checks metadata readme versions, and reports the result. The README documents the branch rules.
Validate release candidates
.github/workflows/publication-gate.yml, .github/workflows/release.yml
Release candidates undergo version checks, tests, build and artifact verification, and Plugin Check. The workflows upload the verified ZIP artifact.
Publish releases and back-sync changes
.github/workflows/release.yml, .github/workflows/deploy-to-wordpress.yml, .github/workflows/draft-release.yml, .github/workflows/test-deploy-to-wordpress.yml
The release workflow publishes the verified package to GitHub and WordPress.org, then opens or reuses a master-to-develop pull request. Three previous release and deployment workflows are removed.
Publish WordPress.org readme and assets
.github/workflows/deploy-readme-assets.yml
The workflow authorizes merged metadata pull requests, checks changed files, readme version, and symlinks, then publishes the readme and assets.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PullRequest
  participant Authorization
  participant Build
  participant GitHubRelease
  participant WordPressOrgDeploy
  participant BackSync
  PullRequest->>Authorization: provide merged release pull request
  Authorization->>Build: provide authorized commit and version
  Build->>GitHubRelease: provide verified package artifact
  GitHubRelease->>WordPressOrgDeploy: publish the release package
  WordPressOrgDeploy->>BackSync: report deployment completion
  BackSync->>PullRequest: open or reuse master-to-develop pull request
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0e14b

The workflows restrict publication to authorized release or metadata pull requests. Maintainer merges satisfy the documented authorization policy; no actionable merge-blocking issue remains.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0e14b

The new publication paths materially strengthen authorization, content validation, and credential isolation. No introduced or worsened security issue was established. Some assurance remains dependent on repository policies, publishing-account permissions, and external publication actions whose failure and recovery behavior could not be verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The configured external publication destination is the content-control plugin. GitHub write authority affects repository releases and back-sync PRs. Compromise of a credentialed publication action could expose the SVN account's broader authority; the account's actual permissions are unavailable, so the fixed slug is not proof that credential compromise is limited to one plugin.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — No introduced or worsened attack path was established for the routed metadata candidates. PR-controlled branch names, changed paths, content, and retry PR numbers pass post-merge checks before reaching the SVN sink. Authorized self-merge and approvals not bound to a review commit remain possible at the workflow level, but the base published every master push without either authorization check.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The privileged metadata workflow obtains PR details through the repository API, rejects unmerged or cross-repository PRs, checks maintainer authority and exact changed-path scope, and gates the secret-bearing job on successful authorization. The update job validates publication data without running PR-provided build scripts.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The shared concurrency group serializes publication workflows, not master branch updates. Metadata freshness can change between comparison and external publication. Head improves on the base's lack of freshness checks and serialization; this residual race is not established as a newly introduced security concern.
  • inferred — Retries reauthorize inputs, but safe repetition after interruption or partial external publication depends on the pinned actions' commit, idempotency, and cleanup semantics. Those implementations and production state were unavailable; neither atomic recovery nor an observed recovery failure can be asserted.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Document and verify recovery procedures for interruption between GitHub and WordPress.org publication, including safe job reruns, external completion detection, and recovery after master advances. Separately verify least-privilege SVN permissions and any repository policy relied on for current approvals.
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 3 files. (3 skipped: 3 … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title accurately summarizes the main change: adding safeguards for release and WordPress.org metadata publication.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 3 files. (3 skipped: 3 unsupported.)

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Review comments at @.github/workflows/deploy-readme-assets.yml:
- Line 69: Update the authorization logic that builds and checks candidates: do
not add pull.merged_by.login as an approver, and exclude pull.user.login so only
an approving reviewer other than the PR author can authorize publishing.

Review comments at @.github/workflows/release.yml:
- Line 137: Update the release workflow’s softprops/action-gh-release step to
reuse the existing canonical ZIP for an already-published version, verify its
release identity before deployment, and prevent retries from overwriting the
GitHub asset with a newly built ZIP.

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  • .github/workflows/pr-target-check.yml
  • .github/workflows/publication-gate.yml
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  • bin/validate-release-version.js
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  • readme.md
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const candidates = [...latestByReviewer.entries()]
.filter(([, state]) => state === 'APPROVED')
.map(([login]) => login);
if (pull.merged_by?.login) candidates.push(pull.merged_by.login);

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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- target workflow lines 1-130 ---'
sed -n '1,130p' .github/workflows/deploy-readme-assets.yml
printf '%s\n' '--- base-to-head diff for target workflow ---'
git diff --no-ext-diff --unified=30 aed9522d5da2ec2316b1c0bc180b8e636e492f1d 7e6820343f739c87b5fecc9470c63d4e82403603 -- .github/workflows/deploy-readme-assets.yml
printf '%s\n' '--- workflow references ---'
rg -n -C 4 'publication-gate|deploy-readme-assets|Verify merged PR|merged_by|approved' .github/workflows

Repository: code-atlantic/content-control

Length of output: 25173


Authorization Bypass

Reachability: Internal
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-863 — Incorrect Authorization

Require an approving review from a user other than the PR author.

The authorization accepts pull.merged_by.login as an alternative to an approved reviewer. If branch protection permits a write user to merge without review, that user can publish the PR. Do not use the merger as a substitute for an approval.

Proposed fix
-                      if (pull.merged_by?.login) candidates.push(pull.merged_by.login);
+                      const author = pull.user?.login;
+                      const approvers = candidates.filter((login) => login !== author);
                       let authorized = false;
-                      for (const username of [...new Set(candidates)]) {
+                      for (const username of [...new Set(approvers)]) {

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Review comment at @.github/workflows/deploy-readme-assets.yml at line 69:
Update the authorization logic that builds and checks candidates: do not add
pull.merged_by.login as an approver, and exclude pull.user.login so only an
approving reviewer other than the PR author can authorize publishing.

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