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Vimeo · Report #43807

Securing "Reset password" pages from bots

Validstatus
11upvotes
31 Jan 2017disclosed

How it was found

I found a security issue on your "Reset password" page

Google botnets are indexing some of your sensitive pages with tokens of accounts.

For this you may like to add: <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

(For pages like "resetting your password" need to have this.)

Vulnerable url: https://vimeo.com/forgot_password/7173461/x5vozxp0d6aqh5ja

Real Proof: https://www.google.cl/search?q=site:vimeo.com+inurl:forgot_password/&num=100&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=Ehs&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&filter=0&biw=1280&bih=672

(Please note that this pages are index by Google already )

This is not a super serious bug I agree. but still if user don't change the password this link will be active for some longer time it can be access by Google.

PS: it also a good Idea to add /forgot_password/* to http://vimeo.com/robots.txt

Any problems reproducing this bug please let me know.

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