Add REST API key for security

Governance Petitions
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#1

As it is, the existing REST API does not secure itself with a key to prevent unauthorized access, much like how it happened back in WP version 4.7.1.

We need to increase the security around it as a whole.

Read-only archive: https://petitions.classicpress.net/posts/14/add-rest-api-key-for-security

Author: stefanos82

Vote count: 29

Status: open

Tags:

  • request-add-feature

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To try to keep up with WP security improvements, is this something we should consider backporting?

A related, but different discussion:

#5