[wp-hackers] Any other way to do it? (or, do we really need Nonces?)

Peter Westwood peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk
Fri Mar 2 13:07:13 GMT 2007


Elliotte Harold wrote:
> It really is broken, and is going to continue to be a cause of security 
> holes, but I have personally despaired of this being fixed short of a fork.

How does switching to POST over GET remove the possibility of security 
holes?  They are both just as exploitable from a security point of view 
if they are not given protection.

Nonces are the best form of protection that we can give either of these 
methods.

westi
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