May 06, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan Users of Advanced Custom Fields plugin for WordPress are being urged to update version 6.1.6 following the discovery of a security flaw. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2023-30777, relates to a case of reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) that could be abused to inject arbitrary executable scripts into otherwise benign websites. The plugin, … [Read more...] about New Vulnerability in Popular WordPress Plugin Exposes Over 2 Million Sites to Cyberattacks
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Insecure Default Configuration Exposes Servers to RCE Attacks
Apr 26, 2023Ravie LakshmananServer Security / Vulnerability The maintainers of the Apache Superset open source data visualization software have released fixes to plug an insecure default configuration that could lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-27524 (CVSS score: 8.9), impacts versions up to and including 2.0.1 and relates to the use of a … [Read more...] about Insecure Default Configuration Exposes Servers to RCE Attacks
Hackers Exploit Twitter Vulnerability to Exposes 5.4 Million Accounts
Twitter on Friday revealed that a now-patched zero-day bug was used to link phone numbers and emails to user accounts on the social media platform. "As a result of the vulnerability, if someone submitted an email address or phone number to Twitter's systems, Twitter's systems would tell the person what Twitter account the submitted email addresses or phone number was associated … [Read more...] about Hackers Exploit Twitter Vulnerability to Exposes 5.4 Million Accounts
Microsoft Azure Vulnerability Exposes PostgreSQL Databases to Other Customers
Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that it addressed a pair of issues with the Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server that could result in unauthorized cross-account database access in a region. "By exploiting an elevated permissions bug in the Flexible Server authentication process for a replication user, a malicious user could leverage an improperly anchored regular … [Read more...] about Microsoft Azure Vulnerability Exposes PostgreSQL Databases to Other Customers
Microsoft Exchange Bug Exposes ~100,000 Windows Domain Credentials
An unpatched design flaw in the implementation of Microsoft Exchange's Autodiscover protocol has resulted in the leak of approximately 100,000 login names and passwords for Windows domains worldwide. "This is a severe security issue, since if an attacker can control such domains or has the ability to 'sniff' traffic in the same network, they can capture domain credentials in … [Read more...] about Microsoft Exchange Bug Exposes ~100,000 Windows Domain Credentials
Travis CI Flaw Exposes Secrets of Thousands of Open Source Projects
Continuous integration vendor Travis CI has patched a serious security flaw that exposed API keys, access tokens, and credentials, potentially putting organizations that use public source code repositories at risk of further attacks. The issue — tracked as CVE-2021-41077 — concerns unauthorized access and plunder of secret environment data associated with a public open-source … [Read more...] about Travis CI Flaw Exposes Secrets of Thousands of Open Source Projects
Air India Hack Exposes Credit Card and Passport Info of 4.5 Million Passengers
India's flag carrier airline, Air India, has disclosed a data breach affecting 4.5 million of its customers over a period stretching nearly 10 years after its Passenger Service System (PSS) provider SITA fell victim to a cyber attack earlier this year. The breach involves personal data registered between Aug. 26, 2011 and Feb. 3, 2021, including details such as names, dates of … [Read more...] about Air India Hack Exposes Credit Card and Passport Info of 4.5 Million Passengers
New 5G Flaw Exposes Priority Networks to Location Tracking and Other Attacks
New research into 5G architecture has uncovered a security flaw in its network slicing and virtualized network functions that could be exploited to allow data access and denial of service attacks between different network slices on a mobile operator's 5G network. AdaptiveMobile shared its findings with the GSM Association (GSMA) on February 4, 2021, following which the … [Read more...] about New 5G Flaw Exposes Priority Networks to Location Tracking and Other Attacks
Privacy Bug in Brave Browser Exposes Dark-Web Browsing History of Its Users
Brave has fixed a privacy issue in its browser that sent queries for .onion domains to public internet DNS resolvers rather than routing them through Tor nodes, thus exposing users' visits to dark web websites. The bug was addressed in a hotfix release (V1.20.108) made available yesterday. Brave ships with a built-in feature called "Private Window with Tor" that integrates the … [Read more...] about Privacy Bug in Brave Browser Exposes Dark-Web Browsing History of Its Users
Data Breach Exposes 1.6 Million Jobless Claims Filed in the Washington State
The Office of the Washington State Auditor (SAO) on Monday said it's investigating a security incident that resulted in the compromise of personal information of more than 1.6 million people who filed for unemployment claims in the state in 2020. The SAO blamed the breach on a software vulnerability in Accellion's File Transfer Appliance (FTA) service, which allows … [Read more...] about Data Breach Exposes 1.6 Million Jobless Claims Filed in the Washington State