For a Few Moments Today, You Could Make Trump’s Site Say Whatever You Wanted
For a brief moment, someone figured out that changing the URL of a page on Trump’s website would change its header to... anything. Hilarity ensued.
Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast
Looks like there’s one more bizarre surprise in store before this election is over after all.
As spotted by Weekly Standard social media editor Shoshana Weissmann among others, if you typed words after the URL “https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/archive/%20” and continue to put “%20” after each subsequent word, you could make the header of Donald Trump’s official press release archive say whatever you wanted it to.
The problem seems to have been first discovered when someone made Trump's website header a poop emoji.
As you might expect, the internet went wild with this knowledge.
Trump’s camp appear to have caught the problem and fixed it within about an hour, making the URL redirect to Trump's homepage among other things, but screenshots are forever.
Seriously, whoever made Donald Trump's website should be ashamed of themselves. This is SO EMBARRASSING https://t.co/LiQ3s328Yu pic.twitter.com/bXG0mbesbv
— Shoshana Weissmann (@senatorshoshana) November 8, 2016
LMAO. Trump's official website has a glaring XSS vulnerability. You can write in any text to the header. 👌 pic.twitter.com/Ef6oRBKTYB
— Izzy Galvez (@iglvzx) November 8, 2016
OK I'm done I swear! pic.twitter.com/5ybdtjWT5D
— Peter Slattery (@PeterSlattery3) November 8, 2016
Big, if true https://t.co/ysaWuJTxis pic.twitter.com/FSLJDp0dGE
— Colin Jones (@colinjones) November 8, 2016
wow, trump really bringing a new message to the race at the last minute. game changer????? pic.twitter.com/UpclVEt1ci
— David Grossman (@davidgross_man) November 8, 2016
GAME CHANGER pic.twitter.com/5bfYIPb7ws
— Addy Baird (@addysue) November 8, 2016
Donald Trump's website has been hacked and the world will never be the same pic.twitter.com/lbWxmIgWHh
— Cabot Phillips (@cabot_phillips) November 8, 2016
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