Bug affecting Android version of WhatsApp causes it to crash when a certain message is received

The Android version of standard messaging app WhatsApp is crashing every time somebody sends a particular message to a subscriber by way of the app. On Twitter, safety researcher PandyaMayur (@pandyaMayur11) wrote that the precise message is http://w.me/settings. In different phrases, if you happen to had been to ship that exact message in a chat to a WhatsApp contact who makes use of the Android version of the app, it will trigger that app to crash. This seems to be affecting customers with version 2.23.10.77 of WhatsApp.

The message will trigger WhatsApp to frequently crash every time the precise chat containing it is opened. So if somebody sends you a chat containing the message as a prank or simply to get you upset, after you restart the app, avoiding the malicious chat will maintain your WhatsApp app operating. While http://w.me/settings would usually permit you to entry the settings on the app, for some cause solely the Android version of the WhatsApp app is carrying the bug that is inflicting it to crash when a chat containing that message is opened. 

If somebody does ship the message to you, the one factor you are able to do moreover avoiding that particular chat is to open WhatsApp by way of your desktop or laptop computer laptop and delete it. Once you have deleted the message in your laptop, you possibly can return to your Android cellphone and resume the chat.

Don’t ship this message(https://t.co/wKuoDv7bMr) to anybody chat.in any other case it will Crash WhatsApp(occurred solely in Android)if already ship it than use WhatsApp net or desktop utility to delete this.@WhatsApp@Meta#whatsappcrash#wamesettings#meta#bugpic.twitter.com/y0QATSWHiO

— PandyaMayur (@pandyaMayur11) May 25, 2023