In this video I demonstrate an obvious loss on a node, then move onto the boss node to clear it. After clearing the boss node, I am immediately granted a victory, despite the fact I have not gone back to clear the node I have lost on.
I have not exploited this bug to grant myself unfair rift victories, and I only demonstrated it on video as evidence. I feel that this bug has huge potential to break rift, letting players to cheese bases and give themselves easy/unfair wins.