Student Discovers OpenID Vulnerability

Wang Jing, a PhD student at a Singaporean university has discovered a vulnerability in OpenID and OAuth. While not earth shattering, with sites like Facebook relying on it to authenticate their users the impact of such a vulnerability could be non trivial.

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