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warn people to put their Matrix HS on a separate domain
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ara4n committed Aug 26, 2016
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as desired. See below for details.
1. Enter the URL into your browser and log into vector!

Important Security Note
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We do not recommend running Vector from the same domain name as your Matrix
homeserver. The reason is the risk of XSS (cross-site-scripting) vulnerabilities
that could occur if someone caused Vector to load and render malicious user generated
content from a Matrix API which then had trusted access to Vector due
to sharing the same domain.

We have put some coarse mitigations into place to try to protect against this situation,
but it's still not good practice to do it in the first place.
See https://github.com/vector-im/vector-web/issues/1977 for more details.

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