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Plume Twitter Client URL Spoofing

It is possible to spoof the URLs that Plume will open to arbitrary locations because of how Plume parses URLs. The preview of an URL in a tweet will show the complete (at least the host name and the first few chars of the URL) but shortened URL. However, if the URL contains a semicolon (;) the URL that will be opened is the part after the semicolon.

An attacker can make use of this behavior by specifying a URL like the following in a Tweet or direct message:

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