Comment on OP finds vulnerability where a forum sends you your password in plaintext over email and everyone misses the forest for the trees

• ono@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes, mosiacmango’s comment echoed what others had said earlier (right down to specific words that I used in the original thread and here), but then went further with this conclusion:

  Pretty clear that this is a very old screenshot of what is now a non issue.

  Everything about that statement is false. While the circumstances made it seem likely that the screenshot was old, it was not clearly so, and in fact, the issue is still present. I checked it. A registration email from the test I ran yesterday looked just like the screenshot in question, cleartext password and all.

  Given that Larian reported the issue fixed three years ago, it’s possible that they fixed it locally and some time later upgraded to a new version of the forum software, thereby overwriting the local fix.

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• ____@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ouch… This should never be possible, in any world. If the password can be emailed, it can be seen. If it can be seen, it can be stolen.

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