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Facebook Fanpage Bug Lets ‘Content Creator’ Hack and Take Over the Page

To all the community Managers & Page owners here, ATTENTION : Don’t use the new admin rules in Facebook, a ‘Content Creator’ can easily take control/ hack over your pages,

How :

1- create a new page with the same name
2- merge the new one with yours
3- after merging them, Facebook will assign him a MANAGER role, because he has that role in the page he created.
4- after becoming a Manager, he can delete you as the page Manager and do what ever he want with its new page

You can reproduce this issue by following these steps

Repro

Steps to Reproduce: To all the community Managers here, ATTENTION : Don’t use the new admin rules in Facebook, a ‘Content Creator’ can easily take control over your pages,
How :1- create a new page with the same name
2- merge the new one with yours
3- after merging them, Facebook will assign him a MANAGER role, because he has that role in the page he created.
4- after becoming a Manager, he can delete you as the page Manager and do what ever he want with its new page
Expected Behavior: The Content creator should not promoted to Manager after that
Actual Behavior: Content Creator will take the control of the page and can delete the other admins

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3 Responses to " Facebook Fanpage Bug Lets ‘Content Creator’ Hack and Take Over the Page "

  1. Jumbo says:

    I tried to reproduce that yesterday using one of my pages on Facebook, but it didnt assign a manager role to the content manager… has FB fixed this bug?

  2. Ray says:

    I tried reproducing this bug with my page, but it wouldn’t even show the option to merge the pages UNLESS he was a manager on the main page. Has this been fixed so the user has to be a manager on both pages?

  3. Geek says:

    The problem was never officially announced by Facebook, however, many people complained about it. Hence, facebook never said whether the problem is fixed or not. I would be cautious making anyone a manager or content creator of my page

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