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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:

  1. Open https://biz.yelp.com/login
  2. Enter non existing E-Mail Address
  3. Enter any password
  4. Submit form
  5. Result: The error message discloses, that the submitted E-Mail address is not known.

Steps to reproduce for https://biz.yelp.com/forgot:

  1. Open https://biz.yelp.com/forgot
  2. Enter non existing E-Mail Address
  3. Submit form
  4. 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.

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