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SECURITY.md

Security policy

Reporting a vulnerability

Email security@favqs.com. Please include:

  • the affected URL, API endpoint, or app version;
  • steps to reproduce it;
  • what an attacker could gain;
  • the account names you used for testing.

Please don't open a public issue or discuss the problem publicly until it's fixed.

We'll acknowledge your report within 5 business days and keep you updated until it's resolved. FavQs doesn't run a bug bounty, so we can't offer payment. We're glad to credit you once the fix ships, if you'd like.

Scope

In scope:

Out of scope:

  • Denial-of-service and load testing, spam, and social engineering
  • Third-party services FavQs relies on, such as Stripe, Cloudflare, Slack, and AWS; please report those to the provider
  • Reports from automated scanners without a demonstrated impact

Testing guidelines

  • Use only accounts you own. Create test accounts as needed.
  • Don't view, change, or delete data you don't own, beyond the minimum needed to show the problem. If you reach someone else's data, stop and report it.
  • Don't change public content you didn't create, such as quotes and authors.
  • Don't degrade the service for others, and keep automated requests slow.

Safe harbor

If you research and report a vulnerability in good faith and follow this policy, we will:

  • consider your research authorized, and not pursue or support legal action against you for it;
  • set aside, for that research only, the parts of our Terms of Service that would otherwise forbid it, such as the rules against circumventing security measures and using automated tools;
  • make it known that you acted with our authorization, if a third party takes legal action against you for research that followed this policy.

This covers FavQs only. It can't authorize testing of the third-party services listed as out of scope. If you're unsure whether something is allowed, ask us at security@favqs.com before you test it.

There aren't any published security advisories