On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 19:11 -0600, James Bennett wrote:
> On Nov 7, 2007 7:08 PM, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Which means that this basically boils down to an annoyance attack,
> > changing a user's password without their knowledge. But that's already
> > exposed to anyone who can guess the user's email address, so anyone
> > who simply wants to cause this sort of mischief already has a much
> > easier route to accomplish it.
> 
> Sent too soon; I was going to explain that this comes up in the
> password reset view, which simply accepts an email address and resets
> the account(s) associated with it.

The fact that that is also broken (which is very much my view) doesn't
the other problem, though.

Malcolm

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