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It's not the ability to display alerts that is concerning, but rather, the ability to run untrusted Javascript. This was a proof of concept that showed that it has a serious XSS vulnerability

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For detailed information on what XSS is, how it can be exploited and prevented have a look at the OWASP XSS description

https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/xss

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