Flask-Security 5.6.2

Quickly add security features to your Flask application.

Quickly add security features to your Flask application.

Notes on this repo

As of 7/30/2024, the independent fork Flask-Security-Too replaced the archived Flask-Security repo (now called Flask-Security-3.0). This repo is published at PyPI at both Flask-Security and Flask-Security-Too. Please consider changing your requirements file to point to flask-security.

Flask-Security-Too was a fork from the 3.0.0 version of the Original

Pallets Community Ecosystem

This project is part of the Pallets Community Ecosystem. Pallets is the open source organization that maintains Flask; Pallets-Eco enables community maintenance of related projects. If you are interested in helping maintain this project, please reach out on the Pallets Discord server <https://discord.gg/pallets>.

Goals

• Use OWASP to guide best practice and default configurations.

• Be more opinionated and ‘batteries’ included by reducing reliance on abandoned projects and bundling in support for common use cases.

• Follow the Pallets lead on supported versions, documentation standards and any other guidelines for extensions that they come up with.

• Continue to add newer authentication/authorization standards:

  • ‘Social Auth’ integrated (using authlib) (5.1)

  • WebAuthn support (5.0)

  • Two-Factor recovery codes (5.0)

  • First-class support for username as identity (4.1)

  • Support for freshness decorator to ensure sensitive operations have new authentication (4.0)

  • Support for email normalization and validation (4.0)

  • Unified signin (username, phone, passwordless) feature (3.4)

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome. Other maintainers are also welcome. Please consult these contributing guidelines.

Installing

Install and update using pip:

pip install -U Flask-Security

Resources

• Documentation

• Releases

• Issue Tracker

• Code