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Autologin Links for WordPress

Autologin Links is a WordPress plugin by WPAutoLogin that allows administrators to create autologin links via the profile edit pages for users which allows users to automatically login and view the WordPress page. This plugin at the moment is thought to be used to link friends/friendly users through to a private part of your website.to allow them to view your content or make comments.

Once this plugin is activated, administrators can generate autologin links on the edit profile administration pages for different users. Users can view their autlogin links on their profile pages

The author says “Caution! This plugin bypasses the standard way of logging in to WordPress and therefore can expose additional vulnerabilities for attackers to exploit: Autologin links/codes are saved as plain text in the WordPress database.”

Plugin homepage: http://www.craftware.nl/wordpress-autologin/

Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/autologin-links/

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