Seven security issues from an audit, plus album pages and the map coming
up empty against Immich 3.x. Verified against a real Immich 3.0.3
instance in a production build.
Security:
- Admin session forgery via a hardcoded 'dev-fallback-secret' signing key
that bypassed the production AUTH_SECRET guard
- /api/map ignored album passwords and returned working asset tokens;
rewriting ?size=thumbnail to ?size=original downloaded full-resolution
originals from protected albums
- Admin login had no rate limit, and the client IP came from a spoofable
header, so rotating it bypassed every limit in the app
- Raw Immich asset UUIDs were serialized into the RSC payload
- Album tokens never expired server-side; a captured token replayed forever
- Path traversal into the Immich API via an unvalidated album id
- /admin ran with no enforced CSP (only Report-Only reached it)
TRUSTED_PROXIES is replaced by TRUSTED_PROXY_HOPS. The old variable
matched proxy IPs against the socket peer address, which self-hosted
Next.js never exposes, so the check could never pass: unset, the limiter
read a spoofable header; set, every request shared one bucket and a single
client could rate-limit the whole site. Migrates automatically.
Immich 3.x: GET /albums/:id no longer embeds assets. Assets now come from
POST /search/metadata with withExif: true — without that flag EXIF is
omitted and grid aspect ratios, the lightbox panel and map markers stay
empty. Drops support for Immich below 3.0, which now logs a warning.
Upgrade: requires Immich 3.0+; set TRUSTED_PROXY_HOPS (nginx = 1);
visitors of protected areas and admin sessions must log in once more.
91 unit tests (25 new); the new admin-auth and rate-limit cases were
confirmed to fail against the pre-fix code.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add docs/admin-panel.md with full guide (setup, features, security, Docker)
- Update README with admin panel feature listing and setup instructions
- Update gallery-config.md with tip about visual alternative
- Update CLAUDE.md with admin architecture and API routes
- Add configurable theme system with 4 presets (studio, minimal, editorial, classic)
- Theme controls fonts, colors, accent, photo frames, grain, and header dot
- Resolve themes from gallery.yaml: string shorthand or full object override
- Inject theme as CSS custom properties on <html> element
- Dynamic Google Fonts loading based on theme config
- OG image route reads accent/background from theme
- Refactor Studio overrides into conditional CSS via data-attributes
Documentation:
- Add docs/gallery-config.md with comprehensive configuration reference
- Add docs/theming.md with preset reference and custom theme guide
- Slim README to link to detailed docs
Fix CSS regression:
- Fix passepartout frame overflow:visible breaking next/image fill rendering
- Remove duplicate .photo-grid__item block that stripped overflow:hidden
Testing:
- Add e2e/photo-grid.spec.ts with 3 regression tests:
- Grid items render with real dimensions
- overflow:hidden CSS guard (catches the exact bug fixed)
- Images load with real pixel data (not blurhash)
Tooling:
- Add scripts/screenshots.ts for automated theme screenshot generation
- Handles dev server lifecycle, theme cycling, FadeIn + lazy image handling
