Cropping vulnerability on Commons
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2023 9:33 pm
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If you don't know already, there has been an exploit affecting several devices that allows the recovery of full or partial images from cropped images. If you would like a good explanation, this is a good video.
On most platforms, images are processed after uploading, so this exploit will usually not affect them. However, photography sites such as Commons usually do not process images, leaving them vulnerable. Unlike other photography sites, Commons has a lot of screenshots from volunteers, which could potentially contain private information such as passwords, e-mail addresses, checkuser and oversight data, real life information, etc. Do you think anything could be compromised by searching for images on Commons effected by this exploit?
If you don't know already, there has been an exploit affecting several devices that allows the recovery of full or partial images from cropped images. If you would like a good explanation, this is a good video.
On most platforms, images are processed after uploading, so this exploit will usually not affect them. However, photography sites such as Commons usually do not process images, leaving them vulnerable. Unlike other photography sites, Commons has a lot of screenshots from volunteers, which could potentially contain private information such as passwords, e-mail addresses, checkuser and oversight data, real life information, etc. Do you think anything could be compromised by searching for images on Commons effected by this exploit?