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by florianletsch 3908 days ago
Are Facebook access tokens vulnerable to such an attack?

If I remember correctly, at least Google tokens wouldn't be: The application receives a token from Google. With that token, a new session token is created. This session token expires and can only be renewed with the application token and the correct redirect URL.

If Facebook uses a similar scheme, tokens would be useless without the running application renewing session tokens.

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Nothing like that happens with Facebook, if I recall correctly. Once you have an access token you're good to go until it expires.