WhatsApp website reported to The Hacker News by Edgard Chammas. WhatsApp is one of the most famous cross-platform mobile messaging app for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia used to send text, video, images, audio b/w Whatsapp users. Such vulnerabilities can be misused by attackers to spread Malwares and rogue applications. According to reports in 2012 mobile malwares are 50 times increases than previous ever. We request Whatsapp team to fix the vulnerability as soon as possible.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2012/09/whatsapp-vulnerability-can-be-misused.html