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a cookie encryption was introduced, which should have prevented an attacker from tampering with them.The functionality makes use of functions from "mcrypt" extension of PHP, which by default are not available on every server.
Solution
Require "mcrypt" extension to be present on the "System Requirements" step during In-Portal installation/upgrade.