Gravatar Profile About Me Form Output

Gravatar Profile About Me Form Output

Yes, an entire novel, to the “About Me” section, this book has a word count of over 60,000+ words :-) There should be a limit of 300 characters or similar. Viewing source of my test profile shows the problem, the content within the About Me form results in a webpage with over 7,500 lines of code!

The above could also open them to a malicious attack: wouldn’t be rocket science for a competitor with malicious intent to upload tens of thousands of these profiles with entire novels within them. Imagine the impact on holding all that data in the database if it were paired with a DDoS attack!

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