php - What stops someone from forging a password reset link? -


i'm creating profile system website, , i'm @ point i'm coding password reset function in php.

basically, i'm asking user email address, setting random md5 password , emailing them , comes in link formatted like

www.mysite.com/reset.php?email=myemail@myemail.com&hash=hashgoeshere

what point in hiding passwords behind md5 when forge password reset link , use hash value instead of password?

you should opt workflow like:

  • generate new guid, save against user account, call passwordresettoken
  • the email send should redirect user /reset.php?email=myemail@email.com&resettoken=xxxxxxxxxxx
  • you verify reset token exists user account specified
  • ask user enter new password of choice , save it.
  • nullify saved reset token cannot used again

it extremely/statistically unlikely guess link set someone's password chose, unless (a) reset request made account, , (b) can happen guess guid generated.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Magento/PHP - Get phones on all members in a customer group -

i working on custom magento extension. working around adminhtml part , i've created custom form there. here form code: <?php class vivasindustries_smsnotification_block_adminhtml_sms_sendmass_edit_form extends mage_adminhtml_block_widget_form { public function _preparelayout() { $extensionpath = mage::getmoduledir('js', 'vivasindustries_smsnotification'); $head = $this->getlayout()->getblock('head'); $head->addjs('jquery.js'); $head->addjs('vivas.js'); return parent::_preparelayout(); } protected function _prepareform() { $form = new varien_data_form(array( 'id' => 'edit_form', 'action' => $this->geturl('*/*/save', array('id' => $this->getrequest()->get...
Read more

php - Bypass Geo Redirect for specific directories -

i'm trying bypass redirect specific url within site. wondering if might able help. the code below code use, original urls replaces example.com i'd able access http://example.com/admin without redirect occuring. is there way this, , there way using own ip? function country_geo_redirect() { $country = getenv('http_geoip_country_code'); if ($country == "us" ) { wp_redirect("http://usa.example.com/"); exit; } else if ($country == "gb" ) { wp_redirect("http://uk.example.com/"); exit; } } add_action('init', 'country_geo_redirect'); you can bypass redirection code if server found ip address. if ip address == <my ip address> ' nothing here else country_georedirect() end if
Read more

php - .htaccess mod_rewrite for dynamic url which has domain names -

i want convert url ex:( example.com/link.php?url=facebook.com ) ( example.com/facebook.com.php ) how can using .htaccess. or there other process make job easier ? i tried adding script .htaccess file options +followsymlinks rewriteengine on rewriterule url-(.*)\.htm$ link.php?url=$1 but converting url adding "url-" ( example.com/url-facebook.com.php ) i want remove "url-" , want make ( example.com/facebook.com.php ) rewriteengine on rewritecond %{the_request} ^get.*link\.php\?url\= [nc] rewritecond %{request_uri} !/system/.* [nc] rewriterule (.*?)link\.php\?url\=/*(.*) /$1$2 [r=301,ne,l] not sure how above work edit of used use remove index.php url
Read more