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In 2007, Gmail had a XSRF vulnerability for setting up filters. It was exploited by attackers that would create a filter 'Contains "password"', 'Forward to: evil@example.com', 'Run on all messages'.

Basically you could visit a malicious webpage, and all emails containing the word "password", would be sent to the attacker.



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