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Credentials in security context are elements that prove your identity to a system, for example a username and password or a client-side certificate. It is usually used to describe elements supplied by the authenticating client, not when the server authenticates to the client or in mutual authentication schemes.

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Scan the codebase for username passwords

Go into the code and grep for the interface used to send credentials for authorizing. Examine each instance you find. … Because these are credentials, the code carrying them needs to be very simple so that you can review it easily. …
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Logging in as another user - Security Issue

It's a bug in their web site, and such bugs are fairly common. They're usually something like the result of an incorrectly copied session cookie, a corrupted cache, or other programming bug. In order …
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