Cryptolocking WordPress Plugin Locks Up Blog Posts

A malicious WordPress plugin ironically called WP Security has been spotted in the wild encrypting blog posts and rendering the content unreadable. It’s capable of targeting individual posts — an unusual behavior, according to researchers. According to analysis from Sucuri, the plugin obtains a...

Inside the MSRC – Anatomy of a SSIRP incident

This is the second in a series of blog posts that shares how the MSRC responds to elevated threats to customers through the Software and Services Incident Response Plan SSIRP. In ourlast blog post, we looked at the history of the Microsoft Security Response Center and SSIRP, and how Microsoft tak...

WordPress 4.7.x < 4.7.2 REST API 'id' Parameter Privilege Escalation

The WordPress application running on the remote web server is version 4.7.x prior to 4.7.2. It is, therefore, affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability in the REST API due to a failure to properly sanitize user- supplied input to the 'id' parameter when editing or deleting blog posts. An...

CVE-2017-18195

An issue was discovered in tools/conversations/viewajax.php in Concrete5 before 8.3.0. An unauthenticated user can enumerate comments from all blog posts by POSTing requests to /index.php/tools/required/conversations/viewajax with incremental 'cnvID' integers...

My Blogging

Blog regulars will notice that I haven't been posting as much lately as I have in the past. There are two reasons. One, it feels harder to find things to write about. So often it's the same stories over and over. I don't like repeating myself. Two, I am busy writing a book. The title is still:...

Sensitive Information Leak

Moodle is vulnerable to a sensitive information leak. blog/rsslib.php does not prevent guest users from accessing sensitive information from hidden blog posts through related RSS feeds for site-level blogs...

TLS nonce-nse

Starting a series of blog posts on TLS 1.3, I published my notes on the landscape of cipher nonces in TLS across versions, to help me clean up the implementation. Comes with hand-drawn diagrams! TLS nonce-nse | CloudFlare Blog archive...

Space permissions ignored in list of blog posts by date

h3. Summary Users have the ability to view a list of all blog posts, even from spaces in which they don't have permission to access. h3. Steps to Reproduce Install Confluence 5.7.x Create two spaces Space A Space B remove all permissions for confluence-users Create a blog post in Space A Create a...

Space permissions ignored in list of blog posts by date

h3. Summary Users have the ability to view a list of all blog posts, even from spaces in which they don't have permission to access. h3. Steps to Reproduce Install Confluence 5.7.x Create two spaces Space A Space B remove all permissions for confluence-users Create a blog post in Space A Create a...

Space permissions ignored in list of blog posts by date

h3. Summary Users have the ability to view a list of all blog posts, even from spaces in which they don't have permission to access. h3. Steps to Reproduce Install Confluence 5.7.x Create two spaces Space A Space B remove all permissions for confluence-users Create a blog post in Space A Create a...

Debian DSA-3183-1 : movabletype-opensource - security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Movable Type, a blogging system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2013-2184 Unsafe use of Storable::thaw in the handling of comments to blog posts could allow remote attackers to include and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: libsocialweb-0.25.21-1.fc17

libsocialweb is a social data server which fetches data from the "social we b", such as your friend's blog posts and photos, upcoming events, recently play ed tracks, and pending eBay auctions. It also provides a service to update your status on web services which support it, such as MySpace and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libsocialweb-0.25.21-1.fc18

libsocialweb is a social data server which fetches data from the "social we b", such as your friend's blog posts and photos, upcoming events, recently play ed tracks, and pending eBay auctions. It also provides a service to update your status on web services which support it, such as MySpace and...

WordPress Plugin social discussions 6.1.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

waraxe-2012-SA093 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in Wordpress Social Discussions Plugin ====================================================================================== Author: Janek Vind "waraxe" Date: 17. October 2012 Location: Estonia, Tartu Web: http://www.waraxe.us/advisory-93.html...

Inherit Edit Restrictions for Child Pages

As it said in Documentation for Page Restrictions|https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Restrictions: quote'Edit' restrictions are not inherited from the parent page, only from the space. In a space, the 'Add Pages' permission governs both the creation and the editiing of pages. See...

Inherit Edit Restrictions for Child Pages

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-26446. panel As it said in Documentation for Page Restrictions|https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Restrictions:...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: libsocialweb-0.25.20-1.fc15

libsocialweb is a social data server which fetches data from the "social we b", such as your friend's blog posts and photos, upcoming events, recently play ed tracks, and pending eBay auctions. It also provides a service to update your status on web services which support it, such as MySpace and...

Pixie 1.04 Cross Site Request Forgery

Pixie 1.04 suffers from CSRF where form data can be submitted by the admin unwittingly in this example to add a blog post or Add a new user. It was not tempted but it is possible to include a cookie stealer in the blog post which a naive admin my view if it has a curious/innocent sounding name...

Globber 1.4 Cross Site Request Forgery

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CVE-2009-0383

delete.php in Max.Blog 1.0.6 does not properly restrict access, which allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary blog posts via a direct request...