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Building A Browser Extension? Careful Not To Accidentally XSS the Whole Internet (tinfoilsecurity.com)
4 points by pyotrgalois on Dec 29, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



This is a genuine concern. The other risk is that you get XSS into a Chrome / privileged Javascript context, which is probably the simplest way to get reliable arbitrary code execution in e.g. Firefox.

See e.g: http://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-17/dc-17-presentations/d... [PDF warning]




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