OWASP / OWASP/SecurityShepherd

Level Cookie Clean Up

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Description

Security Shepherd should clean up challenge specific cookies as they are no longer required. User's regularly get confused when they see "checksum" from one challenge in following requests.

Not sure if there needs to be a clean up utility that removes the cookies from the user's browser or if the cookies should just be set to expire inside a short time of the level page being opened

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Research direction

Start by tracing where challenge-specific cookies such as "checksum" are created and how level pages transition to following requests. Decide whether cleanup should remove cookies or set short expirations; done means cookies from one challenge no longer appear in later requests.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
security, web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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