diff --git a/packages/core/src/utils/request.ts b/packages/core/src/utils/request.ts
index 6aaceb8fc201..3f7477e6459b 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/utils/request.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/utils/request.ts
@@ -149,6 +149,44 @@ const SENSITIVE_HEADER_SNIPPETS = [
   'cookie',
 ];
 
+/**
+ * Extra substrings matched only against individual Cookie / Set-Cookie **names** (not header names),
+ * so we can cover common session secrets that do not match {@link SENSITIVE_HEADER_SNIPPETS}
+ * (e.g. `connect.sid` does not contain `session`) without false positives on arbitrary HTTP headers.
+ *
+ * Cookie names are checked with the same `includes()` list as headers plus these entries; omit redundant
+ * cookie-only snippets that are already implied by a header match (e.g. `oauth` → `auth`, `id_token` → `token`,
+ * `next-auth` → `auth`).
+ */
+const SENSITIVE_COOKIE_NAME_SNIPPETS = [
+  // Express / Connect default session cookie
+  '.sid',
+  // Opaque session ids (PHPSESSID, ASPSESSIONID*, BIGipServer*, *sessid*, …)
+  'sessid',
+  // Laravel etc. "remember me" tokens
+  'remember',
+  // OIDC / OAuth auxiliary (`oauth*` covered by header snippet `auth`)
+  'oidc',
+  'pkce',
+  'nonce',
+  // RFC 6265bis high-security cookie name prefixes
+  '__secure-',
+  '__host-',
+  // Load balancer / CDN sticky-session cookies (opaque routing tokens)
+  'awsalb',
+  'awselb',
+  'akamai',
+  // BaaS / IdP session cookies (names often omit "session")
+  '__stripe',
+  'cognito',
+  'firebase',
+  'supabase',
+  'sb-',
+  // Step-up / MFA cookies
+  'mfa',
+  '2fa',
+];
+
 const PII_HEADER_SNIPPETS = ['x-forwarded-', '-user'];
 
 /**
@@ -196,17 +234,23 @@ export function httpHeadersToSpanAttributes(
 
           const lowerCasedCookieKey = cookieKey.toLowerCase();
 
-          addSpanAttribute(
+          addSpanAttribute({
             spanAttributes,
-            lowerCasedHeaderKey,
-            lowerCasedCookieKey,
-            cookieValue,
+            headerKey: lowerCasedHeaderKey,
+            cookieKey: lowerCasedCookieKey,
+            value: cookieValue,
             sendDefaultPii,
             lifecycle,
-          );
+          });
         }
       } else {
-        addSpanAttribute(spanAttributes, lowerCasedHeaderKey, '', value, sendDefaultPii, lifecycle);
+        addSpanAttribute({
+          spanAttributes,
+          headerKey: lowerCasedHeaderKey,
+          value,
+          sendDefaultPii,
+          lifecycle,
+        });
       }
     });
   } catch {
@@ -220,15 +264,31 @@ function normalizeAttributeKey(key: string): string {
   return key.replace(/-/g, '_');
 }
 
-function addSpanAttribute(
-  spanAttributes: Record<string, string>,
-  headerKey: string,
-  cookieKey: string,
-  value: string | string[] | undefined,
-  sendPii: boolean,
-  lifecycle: 'request' | 'response',
-): void {
-  const headerValue = handleHttpHeader(cookieKey || headerKey, value, sendPii);
+type AddSpanAttributeOptions = {
+  spanAttributes: Record<string, string>;
+  /** Lowercased HTTP header name (e.g. `cookie`, `set-cookie`, `accept`). */
+  headerKey: string;
+  /**
+   * Lowercased cookie name when this attribute comes from a parsed `Cookie` / `Set-Cookie` value.
+   * Omit for non-cookie headers; when present and non-empty, cookie-specific sensitivity rules apply.
+   */
+  cookieKey?: string;
+  value: string | string[] | undefined;
+  sendDefaultPii: boolean;
+  lifecycle: 'request' | 'response';
+};
+
+function addSpanAttribute({
+  spanAttributes,
+  headerKey,
+  cookieKey,
+  value,
+  sendDefaultPii,
+  lifecycle,
+}: AddSpanAttributeOptions): void {
+  const isCookieSubKey = Boolean(cookieKey);
+  const nameForSensitivity = cookieKey || headerKey;
+  const headerValue = handleHttpHeader(nameForSensitivity, value, sendDefaultPii, isCookieSubKey);
   if (headerValue == null) {
     return;
   }
@@ -241,10 +301,15 @@ function handleHttpHeader(
   lowerCasedKey: string,
   value: string | string[] | undefined,
   sendPii: boolean,
+  isCookieSubKey: boolean = false,
 ): string | undefined {
+  const snippetsForSensitivity = isCookieSubKey
+    ? [...SENSITIVE_HEADER_SNIPPETS, ...SENSITIVE_COOKIE_NAME_SNIPPETS]
+    : SENSITIVE_HEADER_SNIPPETS;
+
   const isSensitive = sendPii
-    ? SENSITIVE_HEADER_SNIPPETS.some(snippet => lowerCasedKey.includes(snippet))
-    : [...PII_HEADER_SNIPPETS, ...SENSITIVE_HEADER_SNIPPETS].some(snippet => lowerCasedKey.includes(snippet));
+    ? snippetsForSensitivity.some(snippet => lowerCasedKey.includes(snippet))
+    : [...PII_HEADER_SNIPPETS, ...snippetsForSensitivity].some(snippet => lowerCasedKey.includes(snippet));
 
   if (isSensitive) {
     return '[Filtered]';
diff --git a/packages/core/test/lib/utils/request.test.ts b/packages/core/test/lib/utils/request.test.ts
index 73a19c2bfa45..250fcf8443c8 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/lib/utils/request.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/test/lib/utils/request.test.ts
@@ -650,6 +650,35 @@ describe('request utils', () => {
         });
       });
 
+      it('filters common framework and provider session-style cookie names', () => {
+        const headers = {
+          Cookie:
+            'connect.sid=s3cr3t; express.sid=opaque; PHPSESSID=abcd; theme=light; sb-access-token=x; __stripe_mid=y',
+        };
+
+        const result = httpHeadersToSpanAttributes(headers);
+
+        expect(result).toEqual({
+          'http.request.header.cookie.connect.sid': '[Filtered]',
+          'http.request.header.cookie.express.sid': '[Filtered]',
+          'http.request.header.cookie.phpsessid': '[Filtered]',
+          'http.request.header.cookie.theme': 'light',
+          'http.request.header.cookie.sb_access_token': '[Filtered]',
+          'http.request.header.cookie.__stripe_mid': '[Filtered]',
+        });
+      });
+
+      it('still filters session-style cookie names when sendDefaultPii is true', () => {
+        const headers = { Cookie: 'connect.sid=s3cr3t; analytics=1' };
+
+        const result = httpHeadersToSpanAttributes(headers, true);
+
+        expect(result).toEqual({
+          'http.request.header.cookie.connect.sid': '[Filtered]',
+          'http.request.header.cookie.analytics': '1',
+        });
+      });
+
       it('adds a filtered cookie header when cookie header is present, but has no valid key=value pairs', () => {
         const headers1 = { Cookie: ['key', 'val'] };
         const result1 = httpHeadersToSpanAttributes(headers1);