Re: Social Security Number in Hidden field

Robin Wood <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:28:50 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.web-applications
Message-ID <CALmccy4nzXMZtjipN+OkdYyEEMr-N+HHb1H58KDwe09Yku95VQ@mail.gmail.com>
Is there any reason for the SSN being included in the page? Is it
used, i.e. can it be edited on the page?

If not it shouldn't be there by the sound of it.

Robin

On 23 November 2014 at 20:12, Jyotiranjan Acharya
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There is an application which is present in an intranet. When, the
> Admin of the application loads the user information page, a field
> called SSN appears. It shows ###-##-####. But the actual SSN remains
> in a hidden field.
>
> Do you think there should be a security issue with this ?
>
> Regards
> Jyoti
>
>
>
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