Solved Users can be tricked into starting connected account association

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Starting a connected account association is done via GET, this allows to trick users into clicking a link that starts a connected account association which they might not want to perform.

Example
Start associate account with Google

Suggested Mitigation
Only start the process with POST, if called via GET show a confirmation (or an error if it's not a navigational request).

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