The attack allows extracting sensitive properties of database objects that are associated with users or entries belonging to an account that the attacker has access to. Pageflow uses the "ActiveAdmin" Ruby library to provide some management features to its users. "ActiveAdmin" relies on the "Ransack" library to implement search functionality. In its default configuration, "Ransack" will allow for query conditions based on properties of associated database objects [1]. The "*_starts_with", "*_ends_with" or "*_contains" search matchers [2] can then be abused to exfiltrate sensitive string values of associated database objects via character-by-character brute-force. [1] https://activerecord-hackery.github.io/ransack/going-further/associations/ [2] https://activerecord-hackery.github.io/ransack/getting-started/search-matches/