Answer by deceze for Faking Session/Cookies?
Yes.The only thing identifying a user is a pseudo-random value being sent along with each request.If an attacker can guess the right values to send, he can pose as somebody else.There are different...
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Properly implemented, session ids are very long and random enough to make guessing unfeasible (though if you were able to guess a particular user's session id then yes you would be acting as that...
View ArticleAnswer by alex for Faking Session/Cookies?
Sessions in PHP by default store the data in a file on the server (/tmp/) and store an identifier cookie usually PHPSESSID (it will be a hexadecimal number, e.g. f00f8c6e83cf2b9fe5a30878de8c3741).If...
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I'm not exactly sure how the $_SESSION work in PHP. I assume it is a cookie on the browser matched up with an unique key on the server. Is it possible to fake that and by pass logins that only uses...
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