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Revert "ENG-7125: Fix Basic Auth And User Switching Plugin Conflict"
paulhtrott Sep 14, 2026
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ENG-7203: Ship the 1.0.3 revert as 1.0.4, not 1.0.2
paulhtrott Sep 14, 2026
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4 changes: 1 addition & 3 deletions .gitattributes
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/README.md export-ignore
/composer.json export-ignore
/composer.lock export-ignore
/.DS_Store export-ignore
# Tests are not part of the distributed plugin.
/tests export-ignore
/.DS_Store export-ignore
11 changes: 0 additions & 11 deletions .github/workflows/main.yml
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- name: Checkout code
uses: actions/checkout@v3

# The release is published straight from this job, and no ordering exists
# between separate workflow files, so the checks in test.yml cannot gate it
# from outside -- a push that breaks them would still ship a Release. These
# run here, ahead of the archive, so a failure stops the release rather than
# being reported next to one.
- name: Lint PHP files
run: find . -path ./vendor -prune -o -name '*.php' -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 -- php -l

- name: Hook registration regression test
run: php tests/hook-registration-test.php

- name: Install Ruby
uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1
with:
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93 changes: 21 additions & 72 deletions pressable-basic-authentication.php
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/*
Plugin Name: Hosting Basic Authentication
Description: Forces all users to authenticate using Basic Authentication before accessing any page.
Version: 1.0.3
Version: 1.0.4
License: GPL2
Text Domain: hosting-basic-authentication
*/
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// Hook into WordPress before anything is outputted.
add_action( 'plugins_loaded', array( $this, 'init' ), 1 );

// Logout is handled on `init`, deliberately later than the rest of `init()`.
// wp_logout() fires the `wp_logout` action, and its subscribers may rely on
// constants their own plugin defines in a `plugins_loaded` callback. Firing it
// from `plugins_loaded` priority 1 races that setup, and which plugin wins the
// race depends on load order -- `active_plugins` ordering, anything filtering
// it, and network-activated plugins, which load earlier still. User Switching
// defines its cookie constants that way, so wherever this plugin happens to run
// first, User Switching's `wp_logout` subscriber fatals on a constant it has
// not defined yet. Hooking to `init` drops the dependency on load order
// entirely: every `plugins_loaded` callback has completed by then.
add_action( 'init', array( $this, 'handle_logout_request' ), 1 );

// Add filter for logout URL.
add_filter( 'logout_url', array( $this, 'modify_logout_url' ), 10, 2 );

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* Initialize the plugin
*/
public function init() {
if ( $this->skip_request() ) {
// Skip if we're doing AJAX.
if ( $this->is_ajax_request() ) {
return;
}

// Redirect from wp-login.php when already authenticated via Basic Auth
$this->maybe_redirect_from_login_page();

// Force authentication.
$this->force_basic_authentication();
}

/**
* Handles the Basic Auth logout request.
*
* Hooked to `init` rather than running with the rest of init() on
* `plugins_loaded` -- see the hook registration in the constructor for why.
*/
public function handle_logout_request() {
if ( $this->skip_request() ) {
// Skip if we're doing CRON.
if ( $this->is_cron_request() ) {
return;
}

if ( ! isset( $_GET['basic-auth-logout'] ) ) {
// Skip if we're in CLI mode.
if ( $this->is_cli_request() ) {
return;
}

$this->handle_basic_auth_logout();
}
// Skip requests to excluded endpoints
if ($this->should_skip_auth()) {
return;
}

/**
* Whether this request is outside the scope of Basic Authentication.
*
* @return bool
*/
private function skip_request() {
return $this->is_ajax_request()
|| $this->is_cron_request()
|| $this->is_cli_request()
|| $this->should_skip_auth();
// Handle logout request.
if ( isset( $_GET['basic-auth-logout'] ) ) {
$this->handle_basic_auth_logout();
}
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Restore logout processing on the init hook.

This block runs from plugins_loaded at priority 1. User Switching also initializes its cookie constants on plugins_loaded at priority 1. If this callback runs first, wp_logout() invokes the registered User Switching logout callback before those constants exist. PHP 8 then raises an undefined-constant fatal error. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Restore the separate public logout handler on init. Keep the request guards in that handler.

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In `@pressable-basic-authentication.php` around lines 65 - 67, Move the basic-auth
logout request handling out of the plugins_loaded callback and restore a
separate public handler on the init hook. Keep the existing basic-auth-logout
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// Redirect from wp-login.php when already authenticated via Basic Auth
$this->maybe_redirect_from_login_page();

// Force authentication.
$this->force_basic_authentication();
}

/**
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$this->send_auth_headers();
}

// A request asking to log out must still clear the authentication gate above --
// that is what keeps an anonymous caller from reaching wp_logout() -- but it must
// not be given a session that handle_logout_request() discards moments later on
// `init`. Establishing one fires set_auth_cookie and set_logged_in_cookie on what
// is only ever a logout, which an audit or session-tracking plugin can reasonably
// record as a real login.
//
// Skipping wp_set_current_user() as well as the cookies is correct, not a
// shortcut: execution only reaches here when nobody is logged in -- a live session
// returns above -- so there is no established identity for the following
// wp_logout() to report. It passes whatever get_current_user_id() actually holds,
// which is 0, instead of one this method manufactured moments earlier purely to
// tear it down again.
//
// Placement is load-bearing in both directions. Above the credential handling this
// would skip the 401 as well, readmitting the unauthenticated caller it exists to
// exclude; below the cookie calls it would do nothing at all.
if ( isset( $_GET['basic-auth-logout'] ) ) {
return;
}

// Log the user in programmatically.
wp_set_current_user( $user->ID );
wp_set_auth_cookie( $user->ID );
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public function maybe_redirect_from_login_page() {
global $pagenow;

// A request that asks to log out is never redirected away from the logout. This
// guard only matters on wp-login.php, and only for a logout URL that omits
// `action=logout` -- the URL modify_logout_url() builds always carries it. Since
// the logout moved to `init`, this method now runs first, and without the guard
// such a request would redirect to the home page still logged in, with no error.
if ( isset( $_GET['basic-auth-logout'] ) ) {
return;
}

// Check if we're on the login page and have Basic Auth credentials
if ( 'wp-login.php' === $pagenow &&
! empty( $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] ) &&
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Requires at least: 6.7
Tested up to: 6.8
Requires PHP: 8.1
Stable tag: 1.0.3
Stable tag: 1.0.4
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

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