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Vulnerability found in security tool - The Spanner

Vulnerability found in security tool

By Gareth Heyes (@hackvertor)

Published 19 years ago • Last updated March 22, 2025 • ⏱️ < 1 min read

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Hehe this is quite funny, Chris Shiflett released a tool today to perform CSRF tests and I found a huge hole in it that allows javascript execution on his site. Sorry Chris :)

<strike>Simple Exploit</strike>

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