cms/bootstrap.php

@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 <?php
 /** Shared entry-point setup: loads configuration into $config and registers the NeoCMS class autoloader. */
 
+// Keep stack traces and filesystem paths out of responses; every engine warning still reaches PHP's own error log.
+error_reporting(E_ALL);
+ini_set('display_errors', '0');
+ini_set('display_startup_errors', '0');
+ini_set('log_errors', '1');
+
 require_once __DIR__ . '/config.php';
 
 // URL prefix of the site root: "/neocms" for http://localhost/neocms/, "" for a site at the domain root.

cms/src/NeoCMS/Logger.php

@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ class Logger
         }
         @chmod($this->logsDir, 0700);
 
-        if ($this->auditEnabled) {
+        // Pruning scans every rotated log file; a Logger is built on every request, so do this
+        // occasionally rather than on each one (the same probabilistic approach as PHP's own session GC).
+        if ($this->auditEnabled && random_int(1, 100) === 1) {
             $this->pruneExpiredLogs();
         }
     }

cms/src/NeoCMS/LoginRateLimiter.php

@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ final class LoginRateLimiter
     private int $maxIdentityAttempts;
     private int $maxAddressAttempts;
 
+    /** Hard ceiling on tracked buckets, so a distributed flood of distinct addresses or login names cannot grow the state file without bound. */
+    private const MAX_TRACKED_KEYS = 20000;
+
     /** Configure the protected state file and throttling thresholds. */
     public function __construct(string $dataDirectory, array $options = [])
     {
@@ -93,6 +96,16 @@ final class LoginRateLimiter
             }
         }
         unset($record);
+
+        if (count($state) > self::MAX_TRACKED_KEYS) {
+            // Evict the least recently active buckets first; an evicted bucket simply restarts its count.
+            uasort($state, static function (array $a, array $b): int {
+                $lastA = max((int) ($a['locked_until'] ?? 0), $a['attempts'] ? (int) end($a['attempts']) : 0);
+                $lastB = max((int) ($b['locked_until'] ?? 0), $b['attempts'] ? (int) end($b['attempts']) : 0);
+                return $lastA <=> $lastB;
+            });
+            $state = array_slice($state, -self::MAX_TRACKED_KEYS, null, true);
+        }
     }
 
     /** Serialise state updates beneath an exclusive lock to avoid concurrent lost updates. */