XSS

Pierluigi Paganini October 03, 2018
Experts found 9 NAS flaws that expose LenovoEMC, Iomega Devices to hack

Experts discovered nine vulnerabilities affecting NAS devices that could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to access protected content. Nine flaws affecting NAS devices could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to access protected content. The vulnerabilities are traked as CVE-2018-9074, CVE-2018-9075, CVE-2018-9076, CVE-2018-9077, CVE-2018-9078, CVE-2018-9079, CVE-2018-9080, CVE-2018-9081 and CVE-2018-9082. According to Lenovo, the flaws affect 20 models of network attached storage (NAS) devices sold by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2018
Adobe August 2018 Patch Tuesday addresses 11 vulnerabilities in its products

Adobe released the August 2018 Patch Tuesday updates that address 11 vulnerabilities in Flash Player, the Creative Cloud Desktop Application, Experience Manager, and Acrobat and Reader. Adobe August 2018 Patch Tuesday updates have addressed eleven vulnerabilities in eleven products, five of them in Flash Player. Below vulnerability details: Vulnerability Category Vulnerability Impact Severity CVE Number Out-of-bounds read Information […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2018
ICS-CERT warns of critical flaws in NetComm industrial routers

Security researcher has found two critical vulnerabilities in the industrial routers manufactured by the Australian company NetComm Wireless. Security researcher Aditya K. Sood has found two critical vulnerabilities in the industrial routers manufactured by the Australian company NetComm Wireless that can be exploited remotely to take control of affected devices. The affected models are NetComm 4G LTE […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2018
Hackers shared technical details of a Code Injection flaw in Signal App

Researchers shared details of a code injection vulnerability they found in the in the Signal app for both Windows and Linux systems. The flaw was promptly fixed by Signal. Signal has fixed a code injection vulnerability in the app for both Windows and Linux systems that was reported by a team of Argentinian experts. A remote attacker could […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2018
A new flaw in Electron poses a risk to apps based on the framework

Security experts have discovered a vulnerability in the Electron software framework that has been used for building a large number of popular desktop applications. Popular desktop applications, including Skype, Slack, GitHub Desktop, Twitch, WordPress.com, and others, are potentially affected. Electron is a node.js, V8, and Chromium open-source framework that allows developers to use web technologies such as […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 20, 2018
RubyGems 2.7.6 addresses several flaws and implements some improvements

The RubyGems 2.7.6 update released last week for RubyGems includes several security improvements and addresses several types of vulnerabilities. The new RubyGems 2.7.6 release addresses several vulnerabilities in Ruby Gems and implements several security improvements. The updates prevent path traversal when writing to a symlinked basedir outside of the root and during gem installation. The updates also […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 08, 2018
Joomla 3.8.4 release addresses three XSS and SQL Injection vulnerabilities

Joomla development team has released the Joomla 3.8.4 that addresses many issues, including an SQL injection bug and three cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws. Joomla development team has released the Joomla 3.8.4 that addresses a large number of issues, including an SQL injection bug and three cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. The latest release also includes several improvements. The XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities have been classified […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2018
WordPress plugins and themes vulnerabilities statistics for 2017

WordPress plugins and themes vulnerabilities statistics for 2017. The statistics were derived from our up-to-date WordPress Vulnerabilities Database. We are monitoring a large number of sources to add new vulnerabilities to the database on a daily basis. The year in figures We added 221 vulnerabilities to our database. The total number of vulnerabilities decreased by 69%. During […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2018
SaaS webservice for Seagate’s GoFlex Home Storage devices vulnerable to MiTM and XSS

Security expert found more than 33000 Seagate’s GoFlex Home network-attached storage (NAS) devices vulnerable exposed online. Seagate has patched several vulnerabilities in its Personal Cloud and GoFlex products, but unfortunately, some flaws remain unpatched. In September, researcher Aditya K. Sood discovered vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers to launch cross-site scripting (XSS) and man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks against […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2017
Formidable Forms plugin vulnerabilities expose WordPress sites attacks

A researcher from Finland-based company Klikki Oy has discovered several vulnerabilities in the Formidable Forms plugin that expose websites to attacks. The researcher Jouko Pynnönen from Finland-based company Klikki Oy has discovered several vulnerabilities in the Formidable Forms plugin the expose websites to attacks. The Formidable Forms plugin allows users to easily create contact pages, polls and surveys, and many other kinds […]