Researchers have discovered some critical flows in one of the most popular online game Fortnite and this flows will allows the hackers to take your game account.The games includes some critical flows like SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS) bug, a web application firewall bypass issue, and most importantly an OAuth account takeover vulnerability.
The XSS flows will allow attackers to take the authentication token just by diverting them by clicking a specially crafted web link.Once they get the controll hackers can access all the information of players such us personal info, purchase game equipment and can resold. Also attacker can enter in victim's game contacts and conversations held by the player and his friends during the game, which can then be cause abuse and its will exploit the privacy of account owner.
Most of the users are also connected their game account to the social media accounts and also chance to be misused.The company told that they will fix all the vulnerability as soon.
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