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How I hacked Instagram to see your private photos
Instagram's mobile API accepted the set_public and set_private account actions without any CSRF token and without checking that the request came from the mobile app, so a plain HTML form on an attacker page could flip a logged-in victim's profile privacy. Making a private profile public exposes that user's photos and personal information.
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- Researcher
- Christian Lopez
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- insertco.in
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