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On my webpage I’m using a cookie that’s set to 1 if they’re admin
0 if they’re not
so admins can have access to certain features,
how hard would it be for somebody to make a 0 into a 1 in their local cookie if they wanted to?
Cookies live on the client-side, so of course they are editable. Like everything else that comes from the client, cookies cannot be assumed secure, ever. It would be very easy for someone to make themself an admin using your design.
Don’t be lazy; store the privileges on the server side and only on the server side.