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Hmm, can you explain how this opens up new phishing vectors?. Sure, you could dress the reset page up like a promotion with an iframe and try and get the mark to enter a 'coupon code' or something, but that isn't going to work without the reset token. Password resets by email are already vulnerable to carefully timed phishing.


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