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> Setting the session flag for "this user is logged in" before checking (or even decoding!) the password seems rather backwards to me.

Yeah, that seems like a problem regardless of whether or not you're parsing JSON.



Probably a symptom of the PHP multiverse: anything that can happen, has happened.


And will continue to happen in a Wordpress setup somewhere.




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