HDWebmobile Age Verification Gate
Age verification for restricted product categories, held server-side and re-checked at checkout, never trusted from a cookie.
Overview
HDWebmobile Age Verification Gate requires a shopper to confirm their age before they can buy anything in the product categories you choose. Confirmation is remembered for the rest of their visit.
Several competing “Age Verification for WooCommerce” plugins stored the verified/not-verified flag in a plain, unsigned cookie the visitor’s own browser held, with no server-side re-check at add-to-cart or checkout (CWE-602, Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security). A shopper could simply set that cookie in their browser’s devtools and buy age-restricted products having confirmed nothing at all. This plugin never has a client-controlled flag to forge in the first place: verification state lives only in WooCommerce’s own server-side session store — the visitor’s cookie carries only an opaque session id, never the verification value itself. The confirmation is re-checked again at add-to-cart AND at woocommerce_check_cart_items, the same hook that fires on the cart page, at classic checkout, and inside the block-based Store API’s own checkout processing — so there is no path to a completed order that skips the check. The one method that ever marks a session verified takes no parameters at all, and is reachable only through a nonce-checked confirmation form submission.
Key Features
- Restrict any number of product categories
- A simple, server-verified “Yes, I meet the minimum age” confirmation
- Works for guests and logged-in customers alike
- Enforced identically on classic and block-based checkout
Limitations
Please read before installing:
- This confirms an age claim, not a verified identity — it is not a substitute for ID verification where that is legally required
- Restriction is by product category, not per individual product
Quick Setup
- Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/hdwebmobile-age-verification directory, or install through the Plugins screen directly.
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress. WooCommerce must already be installed and active.
- Go to WooCommerce > HDWebmobile > Age Verification to choose your restricted categories.
Latest Version
Current stable version in readme: 1.0.0 (Initial release: category-based age verification, stored server-side and re-checked at every checkout path.)
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