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Bug 26170 - ⚠Warning!Browsers should take extreme care when interacting with external content intended for plu [...]
Summary: ⚠Warning!Browsers should take extreme care when interacting with external con...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2014-06-22 10:31 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-06-23 20:38 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2014-06-22 10:31:07 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/infrastructure.html#url
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#plugins
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#plugins
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/urls.html

Comment:
⚠Warning!Browsers should take extreme care when interacting with external
content intended for plugins. When third-party software is run with the same
privileges as the user agent itself, vulnerabilities in the third-party
software become as dangerous as those in the user agent.

Posted from: 197.209.189.18
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/6.0)