Summary:
The documentation commit a30657c (a30657c) changed an example/demo site in the login crawler guide from demoqa.com to metrobankonline.co.uk.
Affected file:
- website/versioned_docs/version-1.7/guides/crawler_login.mdx
- Changed line: For this guide, we'll use metrobankonline.co.uk, a testing site designed for automation practice that provides a login form and protected content.
Why this is urgent / security impact:
- metrobankonline.co.uk appears to be a real banking website, not an automation/testing sandbox. Documenting it as a "testing site" is misleading and dangerous.
- Users following the example may run automated login and scraping code against a real financial institution, which can:
- Trigger security/fraud systems and lead to account lockouts or IP blocks
- Be illegal (unauthorized access, credential stuffing, other fraud) and expose the project and users to legal liability
- Risk data exposure or attempted scraping of real customer data
- Cause operational impact (denial-of-service-like traffic) if executed at scale
Recommended immediate actions:
- Revert commit a30657c immediately to restore the original demo site (demoqa.com) in the documentation.
- Temporarily remove the published documentation page (versioned docs) until the change is reverted and reviewed.
- Audit recent commits from the author (coner0013) and any related commits on the same day for other suspicious changes.
- Review repository write access and CI to ensure this was not the result of an account compromise or malicious actor.
- Consider contacting the author via GitHub and the team (maintainers) to get context; if this was accidental, we can document the mistake and restore the docs.
- If you treat this as a security incident, follow the project's incident response process and notify the security/contact channels.
Notes:
Summary:
The documentation commit a30657c (a30657c) changed an example/demo site in the login crawler guide from demoqa.com to metrobankonline.co.uk.
Affected file:
Why this is urgent / security impact:
Recommended immediate actions:
Notes: