Ava Chow 567ff2b6d6 Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#33196: docs: clarify RPC credentials security boundary
938312d7a6 docs: clarify RPC credentials security boundary (crStiv)

Pull request description:

  Explicitly states that RPC credentials grant full administrative access to the node and filesystem resources accessible by bitcoind. Adds a new section in JSON-RPC-interface.md to address issue https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/32274 by documenting that providing RPC credentials to untrusted clients

  reopened #32424

  P.S. I've tried to somehow squash all the commits from the previous pr but accidentally closed the pr and had no idea how to return back, therefore created a new pr, I'm really sorry for the inconvenience

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