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?
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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