wp-includes/pluggable.php:951Generates authentication cookie contents.
$user_idint$expirationint$schemestringoptional'auth'$tokenstringoptional''stringOne hook fires while wp_generate_auth_cookie() runs, in this order:
function wp_generate_auth_cookie( $user_id, $expiration, $scheme = 'auth', $token = '' ) { $user = get_userdata( $user_id ); if ( ! $user ) { return ''; } if ( ! $token ) { $manager = WP_Session_Tokens::get_instance( $user_id ); $token = $manager->create( $expiration ); } if ( str_starts_with( $user->user_pass, '$P$' ) || str_starts_with( $user->user_pass, '$2y$' ) ) { // Retain previous behaviour of phpass or vanilla bcrypt hashed passwords. $pass_frag = substr( $user->user_pass, 8, 4 ); } else { // Otherwise, use a substring from the end of the hash to avoid dealing with potentially long hash prefixes. $pass_frag = substr( $user->user_pass, -4 ); } $key = wp_hash( $user->user_login . '|' . $pass_frag . '|' . $expiration . '|' . $token, $scheme ); $hash = hash_hmac( 'sha256', $user->user_login . '|' . $expiration . '|' . $token, $key ); $cookie = $user->user_login . '|' . $expiration . '|' . $token . '|' . $hash; /** * Filters the authentication cookie. * * @since 2.5.0 * @since 4.0.0 The `$token` parameter was added. * * @param string $cookie Authentication cookie. * @param int $user_id User ID. * @param int $expiration The time the cookie expires as a UNIX timestamp. * @param string $scheme Cookie scheme used. Accepts 'auth', 'secure_auth', or 'logged_in'. * @param string $token User's session token used. */ return apply_filters( 'auth_cookie', $cookie, $user_id, $expiration, $scheme, $token ); }Introduced in 2.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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