Trump’s Site Had A Major Glitch Which Made It Say W/E You Fkn Wanted It To

 

The stats are looking pretty bloody overwhelming right now, aren’t they? So, let’s lighten to mood. 

Earlier today, around the same time that that terrifying cake emerged, Donald Trump‘s website had a bit of coding issue. 

And when we say ‘bit of a coding issue’, we mean the XSS was so vulnerable that users could literally make the headline at the top of the website whatever they wanted. 

On Election Day, that’s not exactly a desirable problem, because the internet started doing stuff like this:

@xor @BBrkdwn Well this could be fun… pic.twitter.com/grVSOd4otb

— Andrew Sorg (@andrewsorg) November 8, 2016

Lots of folks sharing images of ?? on Trump’s site. It’s “real,” but that page just puts the URL in the header https://t.co/AtEYTyvOqN pic.twitter.com/ZCwk2xDR1Y

— Parker Higgins (@xor) November 8, 2016

lmao the trump website glitch actually works https://t.co/J1Xs2l88JJ pic.twitter.com/Cq5iVp4V8j

— gloria ? (@iceicegibby) November 8, 2016

@josephfcox @xor rough. pic.twitter.com/SP2qUjWjFC

— Chris Bennett (@Caesar_X) November 8, 2016

Haha, you can put whatever you want into a Trump and Pence URL, get the header (h/t @xor) pic.twitter.com/vp6REIWlH3

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) November 8, 2016

This is legit an unedited screenshot if Trump’s site. Hilarious. Must be hacked? pic.twitter.com/WhuZqBJ88M

— Jed Whitaker ?????? (@Jed05) November 8, 2016

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

Donald Trump’s website has been hacked and the world will never be the same pic.twitter.com/lbWxmIgWHh

— Cabot Phillips (@cabot_phillips) November 8, 2016

What a second… was that screenshot I posted a hack? Funny, because I thought that was a legit Trump sentence. pic.twitter.com/nqb0TENsiw

— Raul Torres (@uz88) November 8, 2016

It’s ridiculously easy to ‘hack’ Donald Trump’s website: pic.twitter.com/KZMIL3y6Qn

— Austin Powell (@_AustinPowell) November 8, 2016

The internet just had a ridiculously fun time with this url hack of Trump’s website https://t.co/mmvVXSOK80 pic.twitter.com/6dv6F8HgnG

— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) November 8, 2016

So there was a ?? on Donald Trump’s website: https://t.co/WwPeuDNO1Q pic.twitter.com/6WaM3L4c8g

— Steph Haberman (@StephLauren) November 8, 2016

TRUMP HACK BABY pic.twitter.com/Ao3rrMJYEK

— Alec (@ajoy34) November 8, 2016

So much fun playing with the bug in Trump’s website. https://t.co/HUwtLEl9tm pic.twitter.com/pq41JTtnQR

— Rhodri Marsden (@rhodri) November 8, 2016

omg the URL hack on the Trump page. First the cake and now this. What a night. pic.twitter.com/YLgJ3xeBG7

— Stacy (@SilverStGroud) November 8, 2016

Now, despite common belief, this wasn’t actually a hack – it was just coding. Literally anyone could change the title header simply by editing the URL. 

All you had to do was put whatever the hell you wanted to say at the end of the URL separated with “%20”. 

Unfortunately, Trump‘s developers very obviously figured this out quick-bloody-smart, and have fixed it. Luckily for them. 

But we get it. The cyber is big, the cyber is tough. You can’t handle the cyber. 

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