CVE-2013-5726

MEDIUM 6.8CVE-2013-5726 · Published 12/11/2013 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2013-5726 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability affecting tweetbot (tapbots).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.1%, higher than 64.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
tweetbot tapbots	`= 1.3.3= 2.8.5`	No fix yet

Description

Tweetbot 1.3.3 for Mac, and 2.8.5 for iPad and iPhone, does not require confirmation of (1) follow or (2) favorite actions, which allows remote attackers to automatically force the user to perform undesired actions, as demonstrated via the tweetbot:///follow/ URL.

References

blog.binaryfactory.ca/2013/11/cve-2013-5726-tweetbot-for-ios-and-mac-user-disclosureprivacy-issue · Exploit
osvdb.org/99256
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Nov/9 · Exploit

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