[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #20276: Tie nonces to the current session

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Wed Mar 21 20:32:28 UTC 2012


#20276: Tie nonces to the current session
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 Reporter:  ryan         |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Security     |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |
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Changes (by nacin):

 * type:  defect (bug) => enhancement


Comment:

 I imagine we can take a piece of the auth cookie and include it in the
 hash. We'll need to include an identifier at a consistent location in the
 nonce in order to make note of which cookie was used, as we are going to
 want to leverage the SSL cookie if possible, other times we may need to
 use the logged_in cookie (say, the logout nonce).

 If we generate a nonce in the backend with an admin cookie, but try to use
 the nonce on the frontend, the nonce will fail. So perhaps we need to
 stick to logged_in cookie for now.

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