1819689 - password exposed in Password Manager using search

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1634906

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[jannis.gutzeit]

Attachment: password.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0

Steps to reproduce:

Save a password in the password manager, then input parts of the password into the search bar

Actual results:

The entry is shown even if the URL and the username dos not contain the value from the search

Expected results:

The entry should not be shown

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Toolkit::Password Manager' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Dimi Lee [:dimi]]

Hi Jannis, thank you for reporting the issue!
Allowing searching by password is intentional (Implemented in Bug 1567423). See Bug 1765473 Comment 1 for details why we decided to support this feature.