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WordPress Gets Flagged for Insecure Cookie Risk

Yan Zhu, the staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) who publicly exposed the risks, warned in a May 23 blog post of the risks from insecure cookies in WordPress.

“As mom always said, you should set the ‘secure’ flag on sensitive cookies so that they’re never sent in plain text,” Zhu wrote.

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