A week in security (January 22 – January 28)

Last week on Labs, we analyzed a rogue app outbreak on Twitter, took a look at how Singapore's government is faring with network defense, and rolled out our 2017 State of Malware report. We also became visionaries in Gartner's Magic Quadrant report and explored a VR data mishap. Other news Man...

CVE-2018-6360

mpv through 0.28.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, because it reads HTML documents containing VIDEO elements, and accepts arbitrary URLs in a src attribute without a protocol whitelist in player/lua/ytdlhook.lua. For example, an av://lavfi:ladspa=file= UR...

CVE-2018-6360

mpv through 0.28.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, because it reads HTML documents containing VIDEO elements, and accepts arbitrary URLs in a src attribute without a protocol whitelist in player/lua/ytdlhook.lua. For example, an av://lavfi:ladspa=file= UR...

CVE-2018-6360

mpv through 0.28.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, because it reads HTML documents containing VIDEO elements, and accepts arbitrary URLs in a src attribute without a protocol whitelist in player/lua/ytdlhook.lua. For example, an av://lavfi:ladspa=file= UR...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6360

mpv through 0.28.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, because it reads HTML documents containing VIDEO elements, and accepts arbitrary URLs in a src attribute without a protocol whitelist in player/lua/ytdlhook.lua. For example, an av://lavfi:ladspa=file= UR...

CVE-2018-6360

mpv through 0.28.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, because it reads HTML documents containing VIDEO elements, and accepts arbitrary URLs in a src attribute without a protocol whitelist in player/lua/ytdlhook.lua. For example, an av://lavfi:ladspa=file= UR...

CVE-2018-6360

mpv through 0.28.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, because it reads HTML documents containing VIDEO elements, and accepts arbitrary URLs in a src attribute without a protocol whitelist in player/lua/ytdlhook.lua. For example, an av://lavfi:ladspa=file= UR...

CVE-2018-6360

mpv through 0.28.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, because it reads HTML documents containing VIDEO elements, and accepts arbitrary URLs in a src attribute without a protocol whitelist in player/lua/ytdlhook.lua. For example, an av://lavfi:ladspa=file= UR...

CVE-2018-6360

mpv through 0.28.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, because it reads HTML documents containing VIDEO elements, and accepts arbitrary URLs in a src attribute without a protocol whitelist in player/lua/ytdlhook.lua. For example, an av://lavfi:ladspa=file= UR...

mpv -- arbitrary code execution via crafted website

mpv developers report: mpv through 0.28.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, because it reads HTML documents containing VIDEO elements, and accepts arbitrary URLs in a src attribute without a protocol whitelist in player/lua/ytdlhook.lua. For example, an...

Hackers are using YouTube Ads to Mine Monero Cryptocurrency

By Waqas Did you visit YouTube from January 18th to January 26th? There is This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers are using YouTube Ads to Mine Monero Cryptocurrency...

New Chrome and Firefox extensions block their removal to hijack browsers

What you don't see won't hurt you, must have been the reasoning of the threat actors who created the latest batch of extensions that make these browser hijackers even more difficult to remove. The extensions redirect users away from pages where they can disable or delete them in order to drive...

youtube.unblockvideos.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-509329 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| youtube.unblockvideos.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Not created yet Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

WordPress YouTube Plugin CSRF Vulnerability

The WordPress plugin Copyright C 2017 Greenbone Networks GmbH SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the...

WordPress Plugin YouTube Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

WordPress is the WordPress Software Foundation's set of blogging platform developed using the PHP language, the platform supports PHP and MySQL servers to set up a personal blog site.YouTube WordPress Plugin is a use of YouTube video playback plugin for WordPress. A cross-site request forgery...

YouTube terminated its own channel “Citizentube” for multiple or severe violations

By Waqas In April 2007, YouTube launched its official channel on the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: YouTube terminated its own channel Citizentube for multiple or severe violations...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

CSRF in YouTube WordPress plugin could allow unauthenticated attacker to change any setting within the plugin...

CVE-2017-1000224

CSRF in YouTube WordPress plugin could allow unauthenticated attacker to change any setting within the plugin...

CVE-2017-1000224

CSRF in YouTube WordPress plugin could allow unauthenticated attacker to change any setting within the plugin...

PT-2017-10920

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions YouTube WordPress plugin affected versions not specified Description The issue allows an unauthenticated attacker to change any setting within the plugin due to a CSRF weakness. Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a...