Gratipay · Report #163949
Username Restriction is not applied for reserved folders
How it was found
Hi,
This issue is same as #128121 reported by a5tronaut. He reported some of the usernames for restriction and you applied check only for those usernames. I think username restriction should applied for all the usersnames, those are used for a directory or a link in gratipay.
a5tronaut mentioned the sign-out.html. You restricted it but sign-out still is an available username.
Like gratipay have the directory listing for following: Profile, Giving , History, Emails, Routes, Settings.
But none of the above is restricted for use as an username.
I created my account of three of above username for POC purpose. When User of gratipay will click on the following link, he would expect the history, sign-out, settings page of gratipay. But he will end up visiting my gratipay account.
POC: https://gratipay.com/sign-out/ https://gratipay.com/History/ https://gratipay.com/settings/
Fix: You can fix most of this username restriction issues by not allowing . (dot) in username as i suggested in my previous report and other usernames without "." dot can be restricted explicitly.
Thanks, Akash Saxena