Security Advisories (10)
CPANSA-Mojolicious-2022-03 (2022-12-10)

Mojo::DOM did not correctly parse <script> tags.

CPANSA-Mojolicious-2021-02 (2021-06-01)

Small sessions could be used as part of a brute-force attack to decode the session secret.

CVE-2021-47208 (2021-03-16)

A bug in format detection can potentially be exploited for a DoS attack.

CVE-2018-25100 (2018-02-13)

Mojo::UserAgent::CookieJar leaks old cookies because of the missing host_only flag on empty domain.

CPANSA-Mojolicious-2015-01 (2015-02-02)

Directory traversal on Windows

CPANSA-Mojolicious-2018-03 (2018-05-19)

Mojo::UserAgent was not checking peer SSL certificates by default.

CVE-2020-36829 (2020-11-10)

Mojo::Util secure_compare can leak the string length. By immediately returning when the two strings are not the same length, the function allows an attacker to guess the length of the secret string using timing attacks.

CPANSA-Mojolicious-2018-02 (2018-05-11)

GET requests with embedded backslashes can be used to access local files on Windows hosts

CPANSA-Mojolicious-2014-01 (2014-10-07)

Context sensitivity of method param could lead to parameter injection attacks.

CVE-2024-58134 (2025-05-03)

Mojolicious versions from 0.999922 for Perl uses a hard coded string, or the application's class name, as a HMAC session secret by default. These predictable default secrets can be exploited to forge session cookies. An attacker who knows or guesses the secret could compute valid HMAC signatures for the session cookie, allowing them to tamper with or hijack another user's session.

NAME

Mojo - Duct tape for the HTML5 web!

SYNOPSIS

package MyApp;
use Mojo::Base 'Mojo';

# All the complexities of CGI, PSGI, HTTP and WebSockets get reduced to a
# single method call!
sub handler {
  my ($self, $tx) = @_;

  # Request
  my $method = $tx->req->method;
  my $path   = $tx->req->url->path;

  # Response
  $tx->res->code(200);
  $tx->res->headers->content_type('text/plain');
  $tx->res->body("$method request for $path!");

  # Resume transaction
  $tx->resume;
}

DESCRIPTION

Mojo provides a flexible runtime environment for Perl real-time web frameworks. It provides all the basic tools and helpers needed to write simple web applications and higher level web frameworks, such as Mojolicious.

See Mojolicious for more!

ATTRIBUTES

Mojo implements the following attributes.

home

my $home = $app->home;
$app     = $app->home(Mojo::Home->new);

The home directory of your application, defaults to a Mojo::Home object which stringifies to the actual path.

# Generate portable path relative to home directory
my $path = $app->home->rel_file('data/important.txt');

log

my $log = $app->log;
$app    = $app->log(Mojo::Log->new);

The logging layer of your application, defaults to a Mojo::Log object.

# Log debug message
$app->log->debug('It works!');

ua

my $ua = $app->ua;
$app   = $app->ua(Mojo::UserAgent->new);

A full featured HTTP user agent for use in your applications, defaults to a Mojo::UserAgent object. Note that this user agent should not be used in plugins, since non-blocking requests that are already in progress will interfere with new blocking ones.

# Perform blocking request
my $body = $app->ua->get('mojolicio.us')->res->body;

METHODS

Mojo inherits all methods from Mojo::Base and implements the following new ones.

new

my $app = Mojo->new;

Construct a new Mojo application. Will automatically detect your home directory and set up logging to log/mojo.log if there's a log directory.

build_tx

my $tx = $app->build_tx;

Transaction builder, defaults to building a Mojo::Transaction::HTTP object.

config

my $config = $app->config;
my $foo    = $app->config('foo');
$app       = $app->config({foo => 'bar'});
$app       = $app->config(foo => 'bar');

Application configuration.

# Manipulate configuration
$app->config->{foo} = 'bar';
my $foo = $app->config->{foo};
delete $app->config->{foo};

handler

$app->handler(Mojo::Transaction::HTTP->new);

The handler is the main entry point to your application or framework and will be called for each new transaction, which will usually be a Mojo::Transaction::HTTP or Mojo::Transaction::WebSocket object. Meant to be overloaded in a subclass.

sub handler {
  my ($self, $tx) = @_;
  ...
}

SEE ALSO

Mojolicious, Mojolicious::Guides, http://mojolicio.us.