CodeWasp - TitlesCore does not refund excess creation fee payment

[sherlock-admin3]

CodeWasp

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TitlesCore does not refund excess creation fee payment

Summary

Funds sent to TitlesCore.createEdition() or TitlesCore.publish() exceeding the necessary creation fee are stuck in the contract.

Vulnerability Detail

TitlesCore does not refund excess payment on creation fees.

Impact

Excess fee payment is stuck in contract.

Code Snippet

https://github.com/sherlock-audit/2024-04-titles/blob/main/wallflower-contract-v2/src/TitlesCore.sol#L72-L74
https://github.com/sherlock-audit/2024-04-titles/blob/main/wallflower-contract-v2/src/TitlesCore.sol#L103-L105

Tool used

Manual Review

Recommendation

Refund excess fees in TitlesCore._publish().

[thpani]

Escalate

This is a dup of #30

[sherlock-admin3]

Escalate

This is a dup of #30

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[WangSecurity]

Firstly, the escalation is asking to be a duplicate of #30 which is a duplicate itself. Secondly, we can consider duplicating it with #269 , but I believe this report is insufficient. From reading this report I see it as an opportunity loss and a user mistake to send excess ETH, cause the report doesn't mention that there is a functionality to refund it and why it doesn't work correctly.

Planning to reject the escalation and leave the issue as it is.

[thpani]

Firstly, the escalation is asking to be a duplicate of #30 which is a duplicate itself. Secondly, we can consider duplicating it with #269 , but I believe this report is insufficient.

@WangSecurity Please reconsider. #30 itself is incorrectly grouped with #269:
#269 is about Edition.mint(), while #30 is about TitlesCore::_publish().

[WangSecurity]

Yes, you're correct, just noticed it myself. The #30 is planned to be invalidated as well due to the following reasons:

Excuse me, I believe this should remain invalid. Creation fee can only be changed by the owner, hence, there are two scenario's this issue may occur:

1. User mistakenly sends more msg.value than creation fee -- user mistake
2. Admin accidentally changes the fee right before the user creates the work -- admins are trusted, hence, this scenario is not viable.

While in situation with mint fee, it's changed with by the work creator, who is not trusted. Planning to reject this escalation cause doesn't effect reward distribution

[Alireza-Razavi]

@thpani @WangSecurity
I believe this is dup of #36 which is already invalidated.

[Evert0x]

Result:
Invalid
Unique

[sherlock-admin4]

Escalations have been resolved successfully!

Escalation status:

• thpani: rejected