SolidOS / SolidOS/solidos

Physhing risk when hosting HTML files

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Description

Hello,

Not sure if this is the correct place to create the issue, but today on https://solidcommunity.net I created an account called "password-recovery" and was able to create this: https://password-recovery.solidcommunity.net/

I can imagine a scenario where an attacker would grab email addresses from solidcommunity.net users ( by scraping their WebID document for e.g. ) and then send them a phishing email " All solid community accounts have been compromised, please reset your password on https://password-recovery.solidcommunity.net/"

Of course, solidcommunity.net offers no warranty on security, as it is principal place of experimentation. But I wonder in the future if it would be possible to have at the same time the possibility to host webpage and prevent phishing attacks.
Maybe a stronger blacklist?
A moderation system, where permission needs to be requested to host a webpage?

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the account-creation and hosted-HTML behavior described for solidcommunity.net, including the password-recovery subdomain example. No repository file, test, or entry point is named; the issue needs a decided mitigation scope and acceptance criteria for reducing phishing risk while retaining webpage hosting.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
security, web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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