Immediately after finding these vulnerabilities, we contacted Tinder via their responsible disclosure program and started working with them.

Consequently, there is a potential risk for up to 685 million users.

It’s a good idea to change your password ASAP.

DOM-XSS Bug Affecting Tinder, Shopify, Yelp, and More

In DOM-based XSS, the HTML source code and response of the attack will be exactly the same.

Can you spot the vulnerabilities?

This meant that by modifying redirect strategy to a specially crafted payload to manipulate the DOM.

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redirect_strategy is INJECTIONA and scheme_redirect is INJECTIONB from the code above.

This method returns -1 if the value to search for never occurs.

go.tinder.com is an alias for custom.bnc.lt, a Branch.io resource.

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And many other companies have their alias pointing to it.

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