Guest login password security
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Hi.
I’ve set-up the plugin how I like it and it seems to be working well in testing.
However, I have a concern and this involves the Guest Booking/Create an Account feature on the front end to complete the booking.Although this works as expected in that it creates an account etc. my concern lies in the fact that using this form to create the account, it doesnt allow for strong passwords to be forced nor a honeypot/captcha or similar function to protect the new user registration? (The customer also receives the wordpress email to create password, even though you created one already – allbeit insecure.)
As an example of setting the password from this form, I can decide my password is a single letter…and sure enough – I can log in with a single letter. That really isn’t great is it?
From the back end, at least, this works after a fashion. When you create a new customer, the customer receives an email to “reset” their password (as one hasn’t been set already). This allows the use of the proper WordPress function where strong passwords can be enforced and the form protected – “resetting” isn’t an elegant solution and can be confusing. But it does work to set a strong password.
Site security is clearly important…and spam registrations can be a real pain. Is this something that should be addressed? Being able to set very weak passwords can’t really be by design, surely?
Thanks again for your excellent work on this plugin though.
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