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Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability

Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability

Posted Nov 19, 2007 23:03 UTC (Mon) by tobor (guest, #36736)
In reply to: Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability by jwb
Parent article: Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability 

Don't blame the language for this worse-than-failure design decision.

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Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability

Posted Nov 21, 2007 21:21 UTC (Wed) by judas_iscariote (subscriber, #47386) [Link] 

not only the authentication system design is horrible...wordpress is a great example of a cool
blog user interface but an horrible, messy, insecure code.

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