Opened 8 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#2659 closed defect (bug) (invalid)
Plugins displaying user email addresses alongside usernames on plugin cards
Reported by: | netweb | Owned by: | |
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Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
Component: | Plugin Directory | Keywords: | needs-patch |
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Description
Certain plugins are displaying users email addresses alongside usernames on plugin cards.
e.g. https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/act+stop+spam/
The first two plugins in that list the author as Username <some@email-address.com>
Expected: I would expect those to only have Username
Actual:
- The plugin author is displayed as
ActSupport <plugin@actsupport.com>
- Plugin readme.txt src: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/act-stop-spam/trunk/Readme.txt
Contributors: actsupport,actmedia
See also Slack discussion https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB8GMM/p1490952360941953
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In the cases listed here, the plugin authors have specifically set this as their
Author
header in the plugin - https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cleantalk-spam-protect/trunk/cleantalk.phpI don't think the directory should specifically strip out email addresses if people deliberately put it into a public header, and regardless, the email is public as part of the code and will be shown in the wp-admin dashboard once you install the plugin.