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A Popular WordPress Plugin Leaked Access Tokens Capable of Hijacking Twitter Accounts

posted by takyon on Thursday January 17 2019, @01:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the premium-plugins dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 17 2019, @11:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 17 2019, @11:03PM (#788061)

    0auth.com is a train wreck waiting to happen.
    One good exploit will net millions of accounts on hundreds of thousands of sites.