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X / xAI · Report #500686

url that twitter mobile site can not load

Validstatus
lowseverity
$1,120bounty
142upvotes
19 Mar 2019disclosed

How it was found

Summary: A url that twitter mobile site can not load, crushes any page containing this url

Description: Invalid hex characters crushes twitter mobile site as example go to https://mobile.twitter.com/?%xx twitter won't load.

  1. Sending such url on a direct message, twitter will no longer be able to load the conversation, F429765
  2. Tweet such url, anyone following you won't be able to load any tweets F429766

I think Twitter on the client side trying to find a value for %xx which is not possible so it raises an error

Steps To Reproduce:

  1. Go to https://mobile.twitter.com/
  2. Send or tweet this url https://mobile.twitter.com/?%xx
  3. You and your followers won't be able to see any tweets on the mobile site

Impact

This issue works only on https://mobile.twitter.com/ (not working on IOS, Android and https://twitter.com/ ) however, all twitter mobile users with no twitter app should be affected

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