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Flaw makes Twitter vulnerable to serious viral attack - 20/03/2009

  • Micro-blogging site Twitter suffers from a potentially devastating vulnerability that forces logged-in users to post messages of an attacker's choice simply by clicking on a link.
  • The XSS, or cross-site scripting, error causes users to immediately broadcast an innocuous message to all of their followers
  • Of course, it would be just as easy to craft links that do considerably more damage. Tweets are limited to just 140 characters, making it almost mandatory to use shortened URLs that obscure their final destination. While it's possible to preview the link before visiting, many Twitter users have grown so accustomed to them they click on them directly.
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