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5th March 2007 - Link Blog

JSON is not as safe as people think it is. Joe Walker reminds us that even authenticated JSON served without a callback or variable assignment is vulnerable to CSRF in Firefox, thanks to that browser letting you redefine the Array constructor.

Posted 5th March 2007 at 10:51 pm

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