Facebook owned messenger has been used as a famous messenging service among users. It is very common question among users how to modify/delete the messages after it has been sent. Recently a security researcher has found a solution for this.
Once the message has been sent from the Android messenger application it can be altered or deleted. Facebook messenger assigns a unique identifier to every message and it can be viewed from the php file.
Once the php file has been comes up with the id of the message, it can be altered or modified and once it has been updated the target will get only the updated or revised message which has been updated recently.
The bug however is a simple has been notified to the Facebook and they stated that the bug doesnot possess serious threat as they are using Anti-Spam and Anti-Malware solutions in their systems.
Only the Android version of Facebook messenger application has this simple bug and has been patched by the Facebook team.
The way how to do it is published online and it can be viewed here.
P.S: The post is to create awareness and not to be misused.
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