Poll Voting causes Invalid Token

[cacimar]

Bug 12097 seemed like it was quickly closed, so I answered the question asked of me here
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla ... m_id=12097
I'm not sure if it will be re-opened, so I'm posting here.
related to thread:
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=428&t=267521

The following code is added to :
templates/beez/html/section/blog.php

<?php //this is what I add
$myblurb_modules = &JModuleHelper::getModules('promopoll');
foreach ($myblurb_modules as $myblurb) {
$_options = array( 'style' => 'xhtml' );
echo JModuleHelper::renderModule( $myblurb, $_options );
}
?>


This loads my poll in the section blog area.

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Joomla 1.5.4
Apache 2
Mysql 5

Problem:
When submitting a second vote for a poll, the error Invalid Token shows.

To Duplicate:
Create a poll.
Publish a poll module for that poll.
Load that module position into an override Section Blog template
Vote once
Open up a second browser and vote a second time in that browser (or have
someone else in the room vote in the poll)

On the second vote, you should get "Invalid Token"

The problem goes away if:
* If I move the the poll to a position on the navigation bar (see
http://www.impactnews.com)
* or, If I load the position inside of an article
* or, If I disable caching on the site (others have been able to disable
caching on just the module, but that doesn't work for me)


or, of course, if I comment out:
components/com_poll/controller.php
line 50: JRequest::checkToken() or jexit( 'Invalid Token' );

[jak9391]

what did you suggest to do with line 50?

[cacimar]

Removing it opens your polls up to vulnerability unfortunately. The error does go away, but someone might target your users.

I don't know what to do for an actual solution since it seems to be more internal to the token process.

[beanonymous]

I think I may have an actual solution... just turn off caching and clear both expired and current poll cache and that should solve it... no need to create a security issue…

[tappy52dog]

What was your solution for this? Seems like Joomla's System cache is sitll very buggy. Perhaps Jotcache or some other third party extension may help?

[beanonymous]

THis topic was for joomla 1.0 and is long gone since then. As a result any solution provided back then is far out of date.