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Re:Login Forms Over HTTPS, Please by ajanuary on Friday January 29, 2016 @12:00PM (#10996413)
That's not the half of it - if you knew what that cookie contained…
Re:Login Forms Over HTTPS, Please by qb45 on Friday January 29, 2016 @12:06PM (#10996464)
Like... login and cleartext password, to lookup your profile on each request?
Re:Login Forms Over HTTPS, Please by mgkimsal on Friday January 29, 2016 @12:52PM (#10996939)
$sql = "select * from user where username='".$_COOKIE['username']."'";

Came across this last year... have seen variations of it over the last 15+ years, but saw it in 'new' code last summer. :/

Re:Login Forms Over HTTPS, Please by qb45 on Friday January 29, 2016 @02:07PM (#10997636)
Sad reality of rising kids with the notion that security is about forms and passwords and not about hacking stuff.