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Requests_SSL::verify_certificate( string $host, array $cert )

Verify the certificate against common name and subject alternative names

Description

Unfortunately, PHP doesn’t check the certificate against the alternative names, leading things like ‘https://www.github.com/‘ to be invalid. Instead

See also

Parameters

$host

(string) (Required) Host name to verify against

$cert

(array) (Required) Certificate data from openssl_x509_parse()

Return

(bool)

Source

File: wp-includes/Requests/SSL.php

public static function verify_certificate($host, $cert) {
		// Calculate the valid wildcard match if the host is not an IP address
		$parts = explode('.', $host);
		if (ip2long($host) === false) {
			$parts[0] = '*';
		}
		$wildcard = implode('.', $parts);

		$has_dns_alt = false;

		// Check the subjectAltName
		if (!empty($cert['extensions']) && !empty($cert['extensions']['subjectAltName'])) {
			$altnames = explode(',', $cert['extensions']['subjectAltName']);
			foreach ($altnames as $altname) {
				$altname = trim($altname);
				if (strpos($altname, 'DNS:') !== 0) {
					continue;
				}

				$has_dns_alt = true;

				// Strip the 'DNS:' prefix and trim whitespace
				$altname = trim(substr($altname, 4));

				// Check for a match
				if (self::match_domain($host, $altname) === true) {
					return true;
				}
			}
		}

		// Fall back to checking the common name if we didn't get any dNSName
		// alt names, as per RFC2818
		if (!$has_dns_alt && !empty($cert['subject']['CN'])) {
			// Check for a match
			if (self::match_domain($host, $cert['subject']['CN']) === true) {
				return true;
			}
		}

		return false;
	}

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