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Readable password in settings

Open sk-juroot opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Describe your problem!

User password is revealed as plaintext to anyone who opens WhereYouGo application settings.

How to reproduce?

  1. Run WhereYouGo
  2. Open Settings > Login credentials
  3. Click on Password

Actual result after these steps?

Plaintext password shown

Expected result after these steps?

Password field showing only masking characters ( • or * )

Reproducible

Yes

WhereYouGo Version

2022.01.02

System information

No response

Additional Information

Passwords sould not be readable as plaintext anywhere in the GUI (as a basic security measure), when Check login data functionality works, there is no need to have user password visible. This may be security issue for WYG players with extended access to another Groundspeak services.

sk-juroot avatar Jan 05 '22 12:01 sk-juroot

Confirmed

Lineflyer avatar Jan 13 '22 22:01 Lineflyer