Simon Willison’s Weblog

27th September 2007 - Link Blog

Google GMail E-mail Hijack Technique. Apparently Gmail has a CSRF vulnerability that lets malicious sites add new filters to your filter list—meaning an attacker could add a rule that forwards all messages to them without your knowledge.

Posted 27th September 2007 at 10:29 am

Recent articles

Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette - 18th June 2026
GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM - 17th June 2026
Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide - 13th June 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 27th September 2007.

csrf 54 gmail 23 google 412 security 610 vulnerability 5

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe