Opened 2 years ago
Last modified 2 months ago
#4126 accepted defect
"Special contributions" template leaks PII
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Milestone: | Priority: | high | |
Component: | Codex | Keywords: | seo analytics privacy |
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Description
E.g., https://codex.wordpress.org/Special:Contributions/Jany2786@gmail.com
This template should have a meta robots value of 'noindex, follow'.
Change History (11)
#2
@
2 years ago
For reference, that isn't the email address, it's the username. Those are old spam accounts that used the same values for email and username.
We no longer allow accounts to have email addresses as their username. Been like that for a few years. Usernames must be lowercase alphanum only.
This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #meta by tellyworth. View the logs.
2 years ago
#4
@
2 years ago
Can (should) we handle URLs with user=\w+@
in a special way? Force a 404 or 410, redact the address from the page, something like that? Just in case there are any ancient non-spam addresses in there.
#5
@
2 years ago
Hmm, we should probably avoid trying to do anything clever with the URLs on request, but, we can definitely control indexing of these (types of) URLs, and, separately, I've plans to keep them out of Google Analytics etc by doing some housekeeping in Google Tag Manager before tracking scripts fire.
#7
@
18 months ago
- Owner set to tellyworth
- Status changed from new to accepted
What's the solution here? Noindex all Special:
pages? Just Contributions
and Log
? Is it specific to those with @
in the URL?
#8
@
18 months ago
Let's noindex anything starting with https://codex.wordpress.org/Special:Contributions/ - I don't see any useful/valuable (landing) pages in that set.
Also applies to the "Special: Log" template - see https://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=&user=Sassyloving25@gmail+com&page=Sassyloving25&year=2018&month=11&hide_tag_log=1