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In my understanding the video highlights 2 problems:

a) csrf: Basecamp search results page could reject input that didn't originate from the respective search box. But it's useful to be able to send someone a link that will perform a search - it isn't a state changing operation after all. So everyone allows that.

b) xss: the main problem of course is that the search results page prints the search input without any filtering...



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