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-rw-r--r--docs/topics/auth/default.txt9
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diff --git a/docs/spelling_wordlist b/docs/spelling_wordlist
index 6f076f5e33..826bc89693 100644
--- a/docs/spelling_wordlist
+++ b/docs/spelling_wordlist
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ fallback
fallbacks
faq
FastCGI
+favicon
fieldset
fieldsets
filename
diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/default.txt b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt
index 72507f6a17..2bb7883f75 100644
--- a/docs/topics/auth/default.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt
@@ -999,6 +999,15 @@ implementation details see :ref:`using-the-views`.
authenticated users accessing the login page will be redirected as if
they had just successfully logged in. Defaults to ``False``.
+ .. warning::
+
+ If you enable ``redirect_authenticated_user``, other websites will be
+ able to determine if their visitors are authenticated on your site by
+ requesting redirect URLs to image files on your website. To avoid
+ this "`social media fingerprinting
+ <https://robinlinus.github.io/socialmedia-leak/>`_" information
+ leakage, host all images and your favicon on a separate domain.
+
.. deprecated:: 1.9
The ``current_app`` parameter is deprecated and will be removed in