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Creating OAuth owner-only consumers should require elevated security
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Description

When someone compromises an account without obtaining the password, owner-only OAuth consumers can be used to create a permanent backchannel to that account (much like bot passwords). Doing that should require elevated security (reauthentication).

Event Timeline

Change 611342 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gergő Tisza; owner: Anomie):
[mediawiki/extensions/OAuth@master] Require reauthentication for proposing or managing consumers

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/611342