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Security: zerotrustdavid/payreckon

SECURITY.md

Security policy

Reporting a vulnerability

Please report security issues privately to david@invisionsolutions.co.uk rather than opening a public GitHub issue, so the problem can be fixed before it is described publicly.

A useful report includes what you found, the steps to reproduce it, and what an attacker could achieve with it. If you have a suggested fix, that is welcome but not expected.

You can expect an acknowledgement within a few days. I will tell you whether the issue is accepted, and once it is resolved I am happy to credit you unless you would rather stay anonymous.

This is a personal project maintained by one person, so please treat these as best efforts rather than a commercial support commitment.

Scope

In scope:

  • the deployed site at https://www.payreckon.co.uk
  • anything in this repository, including the calculation engine and the tooling in scripts/

Out of scope:

  • vulnerabilities in Vercel, Web3Forms, or any other third party platform, which should go to those vendors directly
  • automated scanner output with no demonstrated impact
  • missing headers or configuration that carry no exploitable consequence

Please do not run denial of service or automated load testing against the live site.

A note on the Web3Forms access key

The feedback form's access key is a publishable value rather than a secret. It is prefixed NEXT_PUBLIC_, it is compiled into the client bundle by design, and it is therefore visible to anyone viewing source. Web3Forms treats it as the form's own identifier, so its being visible is not a vulnerability and does not need reporting.

Submissions are additionally restricted to this site's domain in the Web3Forms dashboard. That restriction is worth having, but it is enforced on a request header, so it raises the effort required rather than preventing abuse outright.

If you find a way to abuse the form, including past that restriction, that is in scope and worth reporting.

Reporting an incorrect tax figure

A wrong number is not a security issue, but it is the thing I most want to hear about. Use the feedback form, and include the inputs you used and the figure you expected.

There aren't any published security advisories