Submitted by MrPotatoMagic
The function updateArtSettings() allows an artist to update the art settings for their artwork at any time. Specifically, it allows updating the receiver, maxSupply, mintFee, startTime, endTime, soulBounded and uri of the PhiArt struct as well as the royalty configuration.
The issue is that if the artist wants to update the art settings after the claiming/minting event from startTime to endTime is over, the artist is forced to extend the endTime to atleast the current block.timestamp. The artist would be wanting to update the uri or the soulBounded value (in case it might be the artists idea to keep or not keep soulbounded initially and then later on change the value to make it not soulbounded or soulbounded) or even updating the configuration for royalties for secondary sales post the event.
Since the artist is forced to extend the endTime to block.timestamp, a malicious user keeping track of such calls to updateArtSettings() can backrun the artists transaction with a merkleClaim() call to mint any amount of tokens for that artId. Since the validation here would not cause a revert, the call goes through successfully.
Lets say the event occurred from t = 0 to t = 100. A total of 500 tokens were minted out of 1000; i.e., the maxSupply.
Through this, we can see how post-event, a artist was forced to extend the endTime to block.timestamp at least, which opened up a window of opportunity for a malicious user to mint tokens.
Consider providing a separate function to update the uri, soulBounded and royalty config settings since these values are most likely to be updated post an event. Additionally, as a safety measure use >= instead of > in the check here.
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