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Ports the contributor stats from HelpScout's webhook. The WPOrgWebhooks module queues conversation events and sends them, signed, to api.wordpress.org/dotorg/freescout/webhook.php (#960), which credits the agent's WordPress.org account. The events are:

  • New conversations and replies.
  • Assignments and status changes.
  • Moves, merges, and deletions.

Events go through FreeScout's queue, so a slow or failing api.wordpress.org never holds up an agent, and they're tried again later if it can't be reached. Replies that are undone aren't counted. Until WPORG_API_SECRET is set, nothing is sent.

The Plugin Directory stats report already adds these stats to HelpScout's (#960), so reviewers' email activity stays complete during the switch.

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  • New Features
    • Added webhook forwarding for conversation creation, replies, status changes, moves, merges, and deletions.
    • Signed webhook requests are retried after temporary delivery failures.
  • Documentation
    • Updated setup guidance to note that a queue worker is required for event delivery.

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Walkthrough

Adds a FreeScout WPOrgWebhooks module that captures selected conversation events, builds payloads, and sends signed requests to a configured WordPress.org API endpoint through a queued job. Failed deliveries are retried. The change also adds module documentation and tests.

Changes

Webhook event delivery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Module setup and request client
freescout.wordpress.net/Modules/WPOrgWebhooks/Config/config.php, freescout.wordpress.net/Modules/WPOrgWebhooks/module.json, freescout.wordpress.net/Modules/WPOrgWebhooks/Services/EventPayload.php, freescout.wordpress.net/Modules/WPOrgWebhooks/Services/Client.php, api.wordpress.org/public_html/dotorg/freescout/common.php, freescout.wordpress.net/AGENTS.md, freescout.wordpress.net/README.md
Adds module configuration and registration, builds event payloads, and encodes and signs requests for the configured endpoint. Documentation identifies the module and updates API payload guidance.
Conversation event capture
freescout.wordpress.net/Modules/WPOrgWebhooks/Providers/WPOrgWebhooksServiceProvider.php, freescout.wordpress.net/Modules/WPOrgWebhooks/tests/EventForwardingTest.php
Registers handlers for conversation events. The handlers apply forwarding conditions and queue payloads. Tests cover event attribution, skipped events, missing configuration, and merge handling.
Queued delivery and retries
freescout.wordpress.net/Modules/WPOrgWebhooks/Jobs/SendEvent.php, freescout.wordpress.net/Modules/WPOrgWebhooks/tests/SendEventTest.php
Adds a queued job that posts payloads and delays failed attempts by 300 seconds multiplied by the attempt count. The job throws on the third or later attempt. Tests cover delay and final failure.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WPOrgWebhooksServiceProvider
  participant Queue
  participant SendEvent
  participant Client
  participant WordPressOrgAPI
  WPOrgWebhooksServiceProvider->>Queue: Queue SendEvent with event payload
  Queue->>SendEvent: Run queued job
  SendEvent->>Client: Post payload to configured endpoint
  Client->>WordPressOrgAPI: Send signed JSON request
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bed13

Contributor activity can be counted twice after a timeout or omitted when an unsuccessful redirect is treated as delivered. Address retry deduplication and require a 2xx response before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to bed13

The integration limits exported data and authenticates requests before updating contributor statistics. Its main bounded risk is duplicate attribution when a processed request is retried. Redirect behavior and some recovery guarantees remain unverified, so the assessment is not minimal.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: The new retrying producer does not preserve single-event attribution across ambiguous delivery failures. If the receiver increments statistics but its response is lost, another attempt receives a fresh timestamp and can increment the same contributor and mailbox counters again. This weakens the cross-service attribution invariant; actual duplicate writes were not runtime-tested.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected webhook outcome is bounded to event counts and contributor/mailbox attribution across the two services. A party able to create valid signatures could influence those counters, but the inspected endpoint does not grant account access or perform helpdesk actions. Conditional unintended delivery would expose agent email and event metadata, not the signing secret itself.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The redirect candidate remains conditional, not a verified finding. The client supplies a signed body and custom signature header without an explicit redirect restriction at the call site. Whether an unintended destination can receive them depends on unavailable helper behavior, HTTP dependency behavior, and an actual redirect. The configured HTTPS default and existing signature checks are meaningful counterevidence.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — FreeScout service configuration determines the destination and signing authority; the inspected payload does not supply the URL. The receiver authenticates the service's raw request before trusting agent fields for attribution. Freshness limits old captured requests but is not a single-use replay control.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The queue contains ordinary delivery failures outside the originating conversation action, but it cannot distinguish rejection from a committed update with a lost acknowledgement. Sequential receiver counter calls also leave partial-write recovery unresolved because their persistence helper was unavailable. Queue uniqueness and manual recovery guarantees were not established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Introduce a stable logical-event identifier and receiver-side deduplication coordinated atomically with attribution updates. Preserve that identifier across retries and recovery so lost acknowledgements and concurrent delivery do not repeat credit.
  • proposed — Make the signed-delivery destination policy explicit, preferably rejecting redirects or restricting them to approved HTTPS destinations. Verify the deployed HTTP configuration before treating the deferred disclosure candidate as resolved.
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Ports the contributor stats from HelpScout's webhook. The WPOrgWebhooks module queues conversation events (new conversations, replies, assignments, status changes, moves, merges, and deletions) and sends them, signed, to `api.wordpress.org/dotorg/freescout/webhook.php`, which credits the agent's WordPress.org account. Undone replies aren't counted, and events that never reached api.wordpress.org are tried again later.

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