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@SaptakS SaptakS commented May 30, 2025

As discussed in our last meeting, along with a .well-known/security.txt, it's nice to have a SECURITY.md to be shown as our security policy in the GitHub Security tab.

This PR adds the policies for reporting a bug and disclosing.

from a member of the website working group within 3 working days. After that,
the website working group will begin their analysis. Depending on the action
to be taken, you may receive followup emails. It can take several weeks before
the website working group comes to a conclusion and resolve the issue.
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I have mostly just copied from Django's security policy. We might want to update.

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I'd remove or extend the 3 working days timeline, we don't need to set a timeline on ourselves like for the framework.

- Confirm the problem.
- Audit code to find any potential similar problems.
- Apply the relevant patches to the codebase.
- Deploy the fixed codebase.
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Do we know how we want to disclose a security issue, since for the website, we don't really need to make releases and ask users to update. Maybe this section should be titled differently. Thoughts?

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My first thought would be, do we even need a disclosure policy at all?

to follow few guidelines that helps us in analysis and resolving the issue quicker.

- Include a runnable proof of concept to reproduce the issue
- User input must be sanitized
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Are there other website specific guidelines we want to add?

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What does "User input must be sanitized" means in this context?
I'm not sure what it means, so it could also be confusing for a reporter.

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