Trying to Find a Bug in WordPress

I stumbled over some WordPress code involving caching. Immediately I had this idea about MD5 collision and how this could affect the implemented logic. I started going down a rabbit hole exploring the feasibility and eventually setting up a PHP debug environment. Only to realize that the idea was flawed from the start. So while this ends up being failed security research, we still learn a lot along the process. Get my handwritten font (advertisement) Checkout our courses on (advertisement) Support these videos: --- get_page_by_path: Hash Collision Overview: #fastcoll-md5 MD5 Collision Demo: ~selinger/md5collision/ Is there an ASCII only MD5 hash collision? Wordpress docker image with xdebug: Debugging wordpress with xdebug: What is a Server? --- Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:36 - Finding the Research Topic 03:03 - Dumb Ideas Are NOT a Problem 03:40 - “What happens with a MD5 Hash Collision?“ 04:38 - MD5 Hash Collision Feasibility 09:25 - WordPress Development Environment 11:18 - Debugging PHP 12:57 - Configuring xdebug 14:42 - Realizing the Research Idea was Flawed 15:58 - What we learned from the failed research 17:10 - 17:47 - Outro =[ ❤️ Support ]= → per Video: → per Month: 2nd Channel: =[ 🐕 Social ]= → Twitter: → Streaming: → TikTok: @liveoverflow_ → Instagram: → Blog: → Subreddit: → Facebook: