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Password Mismanagement

Your site will typically implemented two password reset screens - one for logged out users (after clicking on a password reset link in an email), and one for users already logged in. Ensure this latter screen requires re-entering of the user's old password, in case they leave themselves logged in on a shared computer.

Internal reset screens should require the old password to be re-entered
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