McDonald’s AI bot spills data on job applicants

McDonald's has outsourced the initial stages of its hiring process to an AI chatbot which seems to have been built without proper security measures. Security researchers managed to extract personal information about McDonald's job applicants by simply guessing a username and the password “12345.”...

What Security Leaders Need to Know About AI Governance for SaaS

Generative AI is not arriving with a bang, it’s slowly creeping into the software that companies already use on a daily basis. Whether it is video conferencing or CRM, vendors are scrambling to integrate AI copilots and assistants into their SaaS applications. Slack can now provide AI summaries o...

CVE-2025-5570

The AI Engine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the mwaichatbot shortcode 'id' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with...

Giving AI Agents Access to Cryptocurrency and Smart Contracts Creates New Vectors of AI Harm

There is growing interest in giving AI agents access to cryptocurrencies as well as to the smart contracts that transact them. But doing so, this position paper argues, could lead to formidable new vectors of AI harm. To support this argument, we first examine the unique properties of...

McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’

Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai...

CVE-2025-53536

Roo Code is an AI-powered autonomous coding agent. Prior to 3.22.6, if the victim had "Write" auto-approved, an attacker with the ability to submit prompts to the agent could write to VS Code settings files and trigger code execution. There were multiple ways to achieve that. One example is with...

MAL-2025-5664 Malicious code in ai-guide (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 344da047769642e93f7d727b850c547fe9be2272daef99e44ef3f7c9b0f4bc77 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Malicious code in ai-guide (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 344da047769642e93f7d727b850c547fe9be2272daef99e44ef3f7c9b0f4bc77 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

WordPress plugin Gutenberg Blocks with AI by Kadence WP 跨站脚本漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. A cross-site scripting...

No thanks: Google lets its Gemini AI access your apps, including messages [updated]

If you're an Android user, you'll need to take action if you don’t want Google's Gemini AI to have access to your apps. That's because, regardless of your previous settings, Google now allows Gemini to interact with third-party apps. Through Gemini extensions, it already had the ability to...

Inside the AI Threat Landscape: From Jailbreaks to Prompt Injections and Agentic AI Risks

AI has officially moved out of the novelty phase. What began with people messing around with LLM-powered GenAI tools for content creation has rapidly evolved into a complex web of agentic AI systems that form a critical part of the modern corporate landscape. However, this transformation has give...

CVE-2025-5570

The AI Engine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the mwaichatbot shortcode 'id' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with...

CVE-2025-5570 AI Engine <= 2.8.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via `mwai_chatbot` Shortcode `id` Parameter

The AI Engine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the mwaichatbot shortcode 'id' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with...

CVE-2025-5570

CVE-2025-5570 (AI Engine plugin for WordPress) is a stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in versions up to 2.8.4, caused by insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the mwai_chatbot shortcode with the parameter ‘id’. Exploitation requires authentication at Subscriber level or h...

CVE-2025-5570 AI Engine <= 2.8.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via `mwai_chatbot` Shortcode `id` Parameter

The AI Engine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the mwaichatbot shortcode 'id' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with...

This Week in Spring - July 8th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I write this having spent a wonderful week in paradise Bora Bora, French Polynesia, to be precise with my partner Tam Mie. We were so very sad to have to say goodbye. But that means I'm officially back at my desk, with nary a...

PT-2025-28323 · WordPress · Ai Engine

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: The AI Engine plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 2.8.4 Description: The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the id parameter in the mwai chatbot shortcode. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and...

Taming Data Challenges in ML-Based Security Tasks: Lessons from Integrating Generative AI

Machine learning-based supervised classifiers are widely used for security tasks, and their improvement has been largely focused on algorithmic advancements. We argue that data challenges that negatively impact the performance of these classifiers have received limited attention. We address the...

CVE-2025-53536

Roo Code (AI-powered autonomous coding agent) prior to version 3.22.6 is affected. If a victim had the Write auto-approved mode, an attacker who can submit prompts could write to VS Code settings files and trigger code execution. A concrete example is the php.validate.executablePath setting, wher...

Learn how to build an AI-powered, unified SOC in new Microsoft e-book

The sheer volume of cyberattacks continues to increase at a breathtaking scale worldwide, with customers facing more than 600 million cybercriminal and nation-state attacks every day.1 To stem the growing tide of malicious cyber activity takes a commitment from all of us—individuals from operatio...