wp-includes/class-wp-http-streams.php:429Verifies the received SSL certificate against its Common Names and subjectAltName fields.
$streamresource$hoststringbool public static function verify_ssl_certificate( $stream, $host ) { $context_options = stream_context_get_options( $stream ); if ( empty( $context_options['ssl']['peer_certificate'] ) ) { return false; } $cert = openssl_x509_parse( $context_options['ssl']['peer_certificate'] ); if ( ! $cert ) { return false; } /* * If the request is being made to an IP address, we'll validate against IP fields * in the cert (if they exist) */ $host_type = ( WP_Http::is_ip_address( $host ) ? 'ip' : 'dns' ); $certificate_hostnames = array(); if ( ! empty( $cert['extensions']['subjectAltName'] ) ) { $match_against = preg_split( '/,\s*/', $cert['extensions']['subjectAltName'] ); foreach ( $match_against as $match ) { list( $match_type, $match_host ) = explode( ':', $match ); if ( strtolower( trim( $match_type ) ) === $host_type ) { // IP: or DNS: $certificate_hostnames[] = strtolower( trim( $match_host ) ); } } } elseif ( ! empty( $cert['subject']['CN'] ) ) { // Only use the CN when the certificate includes no subjectAltName extension. $certificate_hostnames[] = strtolower( $cert['subject']['CN'] ); } // Exact hostname/IP matches. if ( in_array( strtolower( $host ), $certificate_hostnames, true ) ) { return true; } // IP's can't be wildcards, Stop processing. if ( 'ip' === $host_type ) { return false; } // Test to see if the domain is at least 2 deep for wildcard support. if ( substr_count( $host, '.' ) < 2 ) { return false; } // Wildcard subdomains certs (*.example.com) are valid for a.example.com but not a.b.example.com. $wildcard_host = preg_replace( '/^[^.]+\./', '*.', $host ); return in_array( strtolower( $wildcard_host ), $certificate_hostnames, true ); }Introduced in 3.7.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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