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We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack

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Re: We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack

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The fact that SVG files can contain scripts was a bit of a mistake. On one hand, the animations and entire interactive demos and even games in a single SVG are cool. But on the other hand, it opens up a serious can of worms of security vulnerabilities. As a result, SVG files are often banned from various image upload tools, they do not unfurl previews, and so on. If you upload an SVG to discord, it just shows the raw code; and don't even think about sharing an SVG image via Facebook Messenger, Wechat, Google Hangouts, or whatever. In 2025, raster formats remain way more accessible and easily shared than SVGs.

This is very sad because SVGs often have way smaller file size, and obviously look much better at various scales. If only there was a widely used vector format that does not have any script support and can be easily shared.

Re: We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack

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Cool bug. Bug bounty money is pathetic.

Supply and demand I guess. Pathetic for a senior SE but pretty awesome for a 16 year old up and coming hacker.

You are right, but that could (probably not) make them go for the bad route because they would get way more money that way. 4k for a bug that could take control of your customer account sounds disrespectful to me.

Re: We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack

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Cool bug. Bug bounty money is pathetic.

I was going to ask. Isn't 4k from Discord pretty low for the work conducted here? I'm not familiar with bounty payouts. I'm hoping these companies aren't taking advantage of them.
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