The OAuth 2.0 authentication protocol is widely used on social networking sites, every day billion of users access their profiles on Facebook and Google+ using it. According to researchers Daniel Fett, Ralf Ksters and Guido Schmitz from the University of Trier, the protocol is affected by a couple of vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers to subvert single sign-on authentication. In the first attack, IdPs inadvertently forward user credentials (ie, username and password) to the relying party (RP) or the attacker, in the second scenario the attacker can impersonate the victim.”]
Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/43518/digital-id/oauth-2-vulnerability.html

