How The Self-Retweeting Tweet Worked: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Twitter

2014-06-11

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http://tomscott.com - http://twitter.com/tomscott - It should never have happened. Defending against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks is Web Security 101. And yet, today, there was a self-retweeting tweet that hit a heck of a lot of people - anyone using Tweetdeck, Twitter's "professional" client. How did it work? Time to break down the code. (Remember the old Myspace worms? They worked the same way.)

THE SELF-RETWEETING TWEET: https://twitter.com/derGeruhn/status/476764918763749376