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Adversarial verification of USPS Label Broker shared-meta overwrite bug
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Verify candidate V8: shared meta key overwrite between QR and full label paths
The assistant executed a series of batch commands to extract line-numbered code from the new and old plugin files, theme templates, and helpers.php. It compared the QR path (lines 172-173) and label path (lines 229-230) in the new code, which both write _usps_label_broker_id and _usps_label_broker_tracking, against the old code (lines 301-303) where those writes were commented out and used separate keys. It confirmed the hook order (LABEL then QR in the theme template; QR then LABEL in helpers.php) and verified that the purge docblock promises to preserve those meta keys as an audit trail. The verdict was CONFIRMED with detailed evidence.
outcome
Candidate V8 is CONFIRMED: the new code introduces a last-writer-wins bug on shared meta keys _usps_label_broker_id and _usps_label_broker_tracking, causing the QR and full label paths to overwrite each other's identity, breaking the audit trail promise, and potentially mismatching the stored tracking number with the label the customer ships with.
next steps
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key decisions
- Used context-mode batch execution to gather all evidence in parallel, ensuring line-numbered quotes from both new and old code.
- Focused on the exact write sites, commented-out lines, hook order, and purge docblock to build a complete refutation case.
open questions
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3 weeks ago → 3 weeks ago