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    Youtube vulnerability

    There's a YouTube commenting bug that allows anyone to easily inject redirects/code/... into any comment. The script kiddies at 4Chan are already exploiting it in an attack on Justin Bieber videos, but there are many harmful redirects as well.

    It would be possible to become a victim of this type of attack from a youtube link on boards such as this one so best avoid everything 'youtube' till they sort out their sloppy code.

    Apparently YouTube can't fix it quickly so they've turned off their commenting system for now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AndyD View Post
    There's a YouTube commenting bug that allows anyone to easily inject redirects/code/... into any comment.

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    It would be possible to become a victim of this type of attack from a youtube link on boards such as this one so best avoid everything 'youtube' till they sort out their sloppy code.
    As far as I know, the embedded media script we use here only pulls the video and title...

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    I just thought it was worth a warning, I'm not sure if the parsing of links presents a problem, if I read anything I'll let you know. With the kind of resources they have, I'm sure they'll sort it out soon....maybe they should just dump all the Justin Beiber videos and do the world a favour at the same time

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