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Thursday, 7 June 2012

Facebook Fanpage Bug Lets ‘Content Creator’ Hack and Take Over the Page

To all the community Managers & Page owners here, ATTENTION : Don’t use the new admin rules in Facebook, a ‘Content Creator’ can easily take control/ hack over your pages,
How :

1- create a new page with the same name
2- merge the new one with yours
3- after merging them, Facebook will assign him a MANAGER role, because he has that role in the page he created.
4- after becoming a Manager, he can delete you as the page Manager and do what ever he want with its new page
You can reproduce this issue by following these steps
Repro
Steps to Reproduce:     To all the community Managers here, ATTENTION : Don’t use the new admin rules in Facebook, a ‘Content Creator’ can easily take control over your pages,
How :
1- create a new page with the same name
2- merge the new one with yours
3- after merging them, Facebook will assign him a MANAGER role, because he has that role in the page he created.
4- after becoming a Manager, he can delete you as the page Manager and do what ever he want with its new page
Expected Behavior:     The Content creator should not promoted to Manager after that
Actual Behavior:     Content Creator will take the control of the page and can delete the other admins

12 comments:

  1. wah re wah waheed bhai, after reading 10 times i understood it :P. BTW great report./

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  2. this bug is a fake .....
    first of all automated system for fan pages doesnot allow you to create fan page with same name and there is no other option left . so dnt thumbs up dude

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  4. not at all this bug might be fixed now but it is/was real for sure.

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  5. If you already admin a page with that name, this error message comes up: "It looks like you already manage a Page named (name of page). Please choose a different name or go to your current Page". But that should be easily sidestepped by using a different account to create the page then add the account as admin that's an admin of that other page.

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  6. You just put a SPACE at the end of the page name or a fullstop and it bypasses the system

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  7. NO se como le haces para que funcionen las 2 pagg ala vez

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  8. any new way ? cuz the merge has gone ? :'(

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