Yelp · Report #166265
Verification of E-Mail address possible on https://biz.yelp.com/login and https://biz.yelp.com/forgot
Validstatus
10upvotes
27 Oct 2016disclosed
How it was found
On pages https://biz.yelp.com/login and https://biz.yelp.com/forgot a malicious user can verify if a particular E-mail address is registered on biz.yelp.com.
Steps to reproduce for https://biz.yelp.com/login:
- Open https://biz.yelp.com/login
- Enter non existing E-Mail Address
- Enter any password
- Submit form
- Result: The error message discloses, that the submitted E-Mail address is not known.
Steps to reproduce for https://biz.yelp.com/forgot:
- Open https://biz.yelp.com/forgot
- Enter non existing E-Mail Address
- Submit form
- Result: The error message discloses, that the submitted E-Mail address is not known.
An attacker can try different E-Mail addresses and can test if they are registered or not, helping him in a brute-force attack.