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OpenID Connect Server

By Automattic

Active Installs

70+

Last Updated

April 17, 2025

First Released

October 31, 2022

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With this plugin you can use your own WordPress install to authenticate with a webservice that provides OpenID Connect to implement Single-Sign On (SSO) for your users.

The plugin is currently only configured using constants and hooks as follows:

Define the RSA keys

If you don’t have keys that you want to use yet, generate them using these commands:

openssl genrsa -out oidc.key 4096
openssl rsa -in oidc.key -pubout -out public.key

And make them available to the plugin as follows (this needs to be added before WordPress loads):

define( 'OIDC_PUBLIC_KEY', <<<OIDC_PUBLIC_KEY
-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
...
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----
OIDC_PUBLIC_KEY
);

define( 'OIDC_PRIVATE_KEY', <<<OIDC_PRIVATE_KEY
-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
...
-----END PRIVATE KEY-----
OIDC_PRIVATE_KEY
);

Alternatively, you can also put them outside the webroot and load them from the files like this:

define( 'OIDC_PUBLIC_KEY', file_get_contents( '/web-inaccessible/oidc.key' ) );
define( 'OIDC_PRIVATE_KEY', file_get_contents( '/web-inaccessible/private.key' ) );

Define the clients

Define your clients by adding a filter to oidc_registered_clients in a separate plugin file or functions.php of your theme or in a MU-plugin like:

add_filter( 'oidc_registered_clients', 'my_oidc_clients' );
function my_oidc_clients() {
    return array(
        'client_id_random_string' => array(
            'name' => 'The name of the Client',
            'secret' => 'a secret string',
            'redirect_uri' => 'https://example.com/redirect.uri',
            'grant_types' => array( 'authorization_code' ),
            'scope' => 'openid profile',
        ),
    );
}

Exclude URL from caching

  • example.com/wp-json/openid-connect/userinfo: We implement caching exclusion measures for this endpoint by setting Cache-Control: 'no-cache' headers and defining the DONOTCACHEPAGE constant. If you have a unique caching configuration, please ensure that you manually exclude this URL from caching.

Github Repo

You can report any issues you encounter directly on Github repo: Automattic/wp-openid-connect-server

No installation instructions provided.

No FAQ provided.

Changelog

2.0.0

  • [Breaking] Add a configuration option to support clients that don’t require consent #118 props @lart2150
  • Make client_id and client_secret optional for the token endpoint #116 props @lart2150
  • Update expected args specs for token endpoint as per OIDC spec #117

1.3.4

  • Add the autoloader to the uninstall script #111 props @MariaMozgunova

1.3.3

  • Fix failing login when Authorize form is non-English [#108]
  • Improvements in site health tests for key detection [#104][#105]

1.3.2

  • Prevent userinfo endpoint from being cached [#99]

1.3.0

  • Return display_name as the name property [#87]
  • Change text domain to openid-connect-server, instead of wp-openid-connect-server [#88]

1.2.1

  • No user facing changes

1.2.0

  • Add oidc_user_claims filter [#82]

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Plugin Info

  • Version: 2.0.0
  • Last Updated: April 17, 2025
  • Active Installs: 70+
  • WordPress Version: 6.0 or higher
  • Tested up to: 6.8.2
  • PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
  • Tags:    
    oauth oauth-server oidc openid openid-connect

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