Discussion Forum: Thread 357786

 Author: cosmicray View Messages Posted By cosmicray
 Posted: May 15, 2024 07:54
 Subject: Links are acceptable in the extended descrip?
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cosmicray (3498)

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While scrolling thru various listings (by other sellers), I noticed one that
said "You can see photos of the set in the extended description". Clicking
thru to the listing, then the extended description, showed me an external link
(without actually displaying the photos). I was surprised that external links
are allowed in the extended description.

My concern is that there is nothing vetting that the external link is actually
going to display an image, and my concern is heightened by this CVE:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38171x

While it has been addressed, not everyone may have applied the patches, and it
did expose a (very cunning) zero-day exploit that affected lots of platforms.

Nita Rae