A popular WordPress plugin leaked access tokens capable of hijacking Twitter accounts
A popular WordPress plugin, installed on thousands of websites to help users share content on social media sites, left linked Twitter accounts exposed to compromise.
The plugin, Social Network Tabs, was storing so-called account access tokens in the source code of the WordPress website. Anyone who viewed the source code could see the linked Twitter handle and the access tokens. These access tokens keep you logged in to the website on your phone and your computer without having to re-type your password every time or entering your two-factor authentication code.
But if stolen, most sites can't differentiate between a token used by the account owner, or a hacker who stole the token.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 17 2019, @05:07PM
i was feeling sympathetic at first while reading, thinking "poor bastards it must be hard to think of everything and with so many eyes on your code they are bound to find something..." then i read " account access tokens in the source code". lmao.