#5367 WordPress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability takes us back to when the modern password handling in WordPress was born, partially due to a vulnerability report at the time. More because we were ready for it. It’s great to read through and watch decisions being made as familiarity grew.
In that thread, Matt links to the changeset that brought us from plain text passwords to hashed passwords for the first time.
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