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Require the old password to change passwords #1691

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strugee opened this issue Dec 30, 2018 · 0 comments
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Require the old password to change passwords #1691

strugee opened this issue Dec 30, 2018 · 0 comments
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strugee commented Dec 30, 2018

We need to require the old password in order to request password changes, because if an attacker compromises a session id but not the password they shouldn't be able to lock the user out of their account.
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