Facebook bug allowed websites to grab unsuspecting users’ personal data

Facebook bug allowed websites to grab unsuspecting users’ personal data
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2018-11-14 09:24

Security firm Imperva found a bug in May that allowed websites to read Facebook users and their friends’ private information.  The troubling vulnerability let a site access users’ likes and interests through a manipulated Facebook Graph query.

Thankfully, the bug has now been fixed Imperva’s researcher Ron Masas discovered in May that Facebook was exposed to cross-site request forgery (CSRF). That means another website can access a logged-in Facebook user’s data through queries in code.   To exploit the bug, a site can embed an IFRAME – a site within a site – to siphon off data from a user. When a logged-in…

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