Now getting some weird Matrix like script on the Photo page. Related cyber attack, or just a glitch?
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Thanks for recording this, James.
I think he’s since edited it as it’s not displaying any more. I’ll investigate what’s happened here.
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I’ve done a bit more digging, and I can see the “hacker” (using the term loosely as the damage was just cosmetic) used special non-English letters in his comment text.
From stackoverflow:
It’s stacked diacritics on top of one another, as seen here, and in the infamous zalgo text; in this case stacked accents used in many non-English Latin-based languages.
Think I’ll need to further sanitise user-supplied text to avoid this. It’s a shame to do so, as I don’t want to disallow things like emoji and accent characters.
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Ha. So it was just a comment full of a script that the comment box couldn’t properly display. Cheap but effective. Glad it wasn’t anything more sophisticated.
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yeah that’s right. It’s just a trick using foreign characters, nothing serious:
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