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Frontend Users security issue?

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:58 am
by jmcgin51
As I was trying to figure out what is causing my FEU users not to expire and what is causing me to get an "Incorrect datetime value" error when I try to create an FEU user, I realized that the URL that is passed from page to page during the creation process contains the password that I entered for the user.  I'm not a programmer (which is why I love the simplicity of CMSMS), but it seems to me that this isn't good.  For example, here's a URL from the page where you enter the values for the selected properties for a user (the last step before the user is actually created):
http://mywebsite.com/cmsms/admin/module ... ast=mylast name&m1_hidden_cmsms_userid=cmsms_userid%3B0%3B5%3B2%3B5&m1_input_cmsms_userid=mycmsmsuserid&m1_hidden_email=email%3B2%3B40%3B2%3B40&m1_input_email=myemailaddress&m1_step1_params=input_username%3Dmyusername%26input_password%3Dmypassword%26input_repeatpassword%3Dmypassword%26expiresdate_Month%3D12%26expiresdate_Day%3D4%26expiresdate_Year%3D2007%26memberof_1%3D1%26submit%3DNext%26input_expiresdate%3D1196744400%26action%3Ddo_adduser2&m1_submit=Next&m1_input_username=myusername&m1_input_password=mypassword&m1_input_repeatpassword=mypassword&m1_expiresdate_Month=12&m1_expiresdate_Day=4&m1_expiresdate_Year=2007&m1_memberof_1=1&m1_input_expiresdate=1196744400&m1_error=1&m1_message=Incorrect%20datetime%20value%3A%20%27%272006-12-04%2021%3A38%3A55%27%27%20for%20column%20%27createdate%27%20at%20row%201
(I replaced the actual url, username, password, etc, with "mywebsite", "my password", etc)

Would like to hear comments from those who are smarter than I are ;-)

Re: Frontend Users security issue? (PARTLY resolved)

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:30 pm
by jmcgin51
I no longer have problems with users not expiring, but my question about security still remains.  Can anyone address this?  It doesn't seem very secure to have the user information passed in the URL, where it can be read by anyone who wants to read it.