Mailbox For iOS Found To Have Major Security Flaw

Mailbox for iOS has been found to have a major security flaw: the app executes any Javascript hidden in the body of HTML-formatted emails, opening potential for malicious exploits.

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Update: A statement from the Mailbox team:

“Many thanks to the community for continuing to push Mailbox to be as great an app as possible. As others have noted, the risks here are extremely limited thanks to the inter-app security built into iOS. That being said, we’re working on an improvement to mail formatting that will mitigate the issue entirely and aim to ship it soon.”