Donald Trump’s Website Had a Fun Little Glitch You Could Use to Say Anything You Want
Online pranksters have found out that it was surprisingly easy to mess around with Donald Trump‘s campaign website.
As Election Day continues to dominate the political consciousness, Twitter users found some levity in the form of some very… unusual statements that looked like they came from the Trump campaign. It may have looked like the site was hacked, but there was a URL with a quirk that can be exploited very easily.
The glitch worked by typing the URL: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/archive/. After that, if you typed in additional words and separate them with %20, they appeared on the site’s main banner once you hit “enter.”
Twitter already found out about it, so naturally, people had fun:
OMG TRUMP’S WEBSITE WAS HACKED BRIEFLY TO SAY HE DID HARAMBE https://t.co/iQw3ZT80mf pic.twitter.com/tspuuxNM3S
— kelly cohen (@politiCOHEN_) November 8, 2016
Fun with URL hacking. https://t.co/UWU2r69DSL pic.twitter.com/KMdW0GQXQ6
— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) November 8, 2016
This is Trump’s website right now. https://t.co/AdV7Y14r37 pic.twitter.com/u0ZH1sFIyn
— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) November 8, 2016
It's ridiculously easy to 'hack' Donald Trump's website: pic.twitter.com/KZMIL3y6Qn
— Austin Powell (@_AustinPowell) November 8, 2016
Huh. Weird. https://t.co/wrOjZXvo4y. pic.twitter.com/fE6fbtvjr9
— Andrew Kirell (@AndrewKirell) November 8, 2016
Customize Trump's website! See my earlier tweet for how #ElectionNight pic.twitter.com/tKC8vKnRvc
— Mandy Turner (@mandini76) November 8, 2016
Important breaking news https://t.co/Tp8ZIwc9te
— Jordan Weissmann (@JHWeissmann) November 8, 2016
LMAO. Trump's official website has a glaring XSS vulnerability. You can write in any text to the header. ? pic.twitter.com/Ef6oRBKTYB
— Izzy Galvez (@iglvzx) November 8, 2016
How to make Donald Trump’s website say whatever you want https://t.co/SaRjwCT6Iu
— Hunter Schwarz (@hunterschwarz) November 8, 2016
And the one that captures how we all feel:
Seriously, whoever made Donald Trump's website should be ashamed of themselves. This is SO EMBARRASSING https://t.co/LiQ3s328Yu pic.twitter.com/bXG0mbesbv
— Shoshana Weissmann (@senatorshoshana) November 8, 2016
As of this posting, the glitch appears to have been fixed.
[Image via screengrab]
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