CVE-2019-18893

XSS in the Video Downloader component before 1.5 of Avast Secure Browser 77.1.1831.91 and AVG Secure Browser 77.0.1790.77 allows websites to execute their code in the context of this component. While Video Downloader is technically a browser extension, it is granted a very wide set of privileges...

Amazon Takes a Swipe at PayPal's $4 Billion Acquisition

The retail giant warned holiday shoppers that Honey, a popular browser extension, was a “security risk.” Honey denies the claim...

Obfuscation as a Privacy Tool

This essay discusses the futility of opting out of surveillance, and suggests data obfuscation as an alternative. We can apply obfuscation in our own lives by using practices and technologies that make use of it, including: The secure browser Tor, which among other anti-surveillance technologies...

The vulnerability of the JSON Viewer browser extension, which allows attackers to perform cross-site scripting attacks.

The vulnerability of the JSON Viewer browser extension arises from errors in file processing. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to perform cross-site scripting attacks remotely...

Google Adds Password Checkup Feature to Chrome Browser

Google will soon alert Chrome browser users of weak or compromised passwords. The checks will be in real time as Chrome users visit a password protected website. Bad passwords will trigger a red dialogue box alerting users to take action to better protect their account. The move integrates a...

Malicious Ad Blockers for Chrome Caught in Ad Fraud Scheme

Google has removed two malicious ad blockers from its Chrome Web Store after a researcher discovered they were carrying out ad fraud and deceived Chrome users by using names of legitimate and popular blockers. Researcher Andrey Meshkov from rival ad blocker maker AdGuard discovered that the...

Mitaka - A Browser Extension For OSINT Search

Mitaka is a browser extension for OSINT search which can: Extract & refang IoC from a selected block of text. E.g. example.com to example.com, testatexample.com to [email protected], hxxp://example.com to http://example.com, etc. Search / scan it on various engines. E.g. VirusTotal,...

LastPass Credential Leak From Previous Site

lastpass: bypassing dopopupregister leaks credentials from previous site I noticed that you can create a popup without calling dopopupregister by iframing popupfilltab.html i.e. via moz-extension, ms-browser-extension, chrome-extension, etc. It's a valid webaccessibleresource. Because...

Mozilla Launches 'Firefox Private Network' VPN Service as a Browser Extension

Mozilla has officially launched a new privacy-focused VPN service, called Firefox Private Network , as a browser extension that aims to encrypt your online activity and limit what websites and advertisers know about you. Firefox Private Network service is currently in beta and available only to...

Mozilla Launches 'Firefox Private Network' VPN Service as a Browser Extension

Mozilla has officially launched a new privacy-focused VPN service, called Firefox Private Network, as a browser extension that aims to encrypt your online activity and limit what websites and advertisers know about you. Firefox Private Network service is currently in beta and available only to...

Google Launches Open-Source Browser Extension for Ad Transparency

Google is launching an experimental, open-source browser extension aimed at increasing transparency around online advertising by displaying information about the ads that are shown to users. The browser extension is an integral part of a new Google initiative announced Thursday to develop a set o...

Design/Logic Flaw

Mailvelope prior to 3.1.0 is vulnerable to a clickjacking attack against the settings page. As the settings page is intended to be accessible from web applications, the browser's extension isolation mechanisms are disabled webaccessibleresources. Mailvelope implements additional measures to preve...

ExtAnalysis - Browser Extension Analysis Framework

With ExtAnalysis you can : Download & Analyze Extensions From: Chrome Web Store Firefox Addons Analyze Installed Extensions of: Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Opera Browser Coming Soon Upload and Scan Extensions. Supported formats: .crx .xpi .zip Features of ExtAnalysis : View Basic Informations:...

CVE-2019-3610 True Key Browser Extension 3.1.9219.0 update fixes Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability

Data Leakage Attacks vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client in McAfee True Key TK 3.1.9211.0 and earlier allows local users to expose confidential data via specially crafted malware...

Grammarly Launches Public Bug Bounty Program

Online AI-based communications tool Grammarly is taking its private bug bounty program public in hopes of finding and fixing more vulnerabilities in its software. The company has run a private bug bounty program – which currently has 1,500 participants – in conjunction with HackerOne for over a...

CVE-2018-18865

The Royal browser extensions TS before 4.3.60728 Release Date 2018-07-28 and TSX before 3.3.1 Release Date 2018-09-13 allow Credentials Disclosure...

Kaspersky: Kaspersky Password Manager is vulnerable to HTML injection in the browser action pop-up via user name

Note: According to https://www.securityweek.com/kaspersky-adds-password-manager-bug-bounty-program and some other sources, Kaspersky Password Manager is in scope for this program. The program description doesn't reflect this however. Summary There is a stored XSS vulnerability in popover.html the...

Royal TSX Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Exploit for jsp platform in category web applications Title: Royal TS/X - Information Disclosure Author: Jakub Palaczynski CVE: CVE-2018-18865 Affected product: ============= Royal TS/X RoyalTS/X Exploit var wsUri = "ws://127.0.0.1:54890/"; var output; function init output =...

Royal TS/X - Information Disclosure

RoyalTS/X Exploit var wsUri = "ws://127.0.0.1:54890/"; var output; function init output = document.getElementById"output"; testWebSocket; function testWebSocket writeToScreen"Let's retrieve some data..."; websocket = new WebSocketwsUri; websocket.onopen = functionevt...

Royal TS/X Information Disclosure

Title: Royal TS/X - Information Disclosure Author: Jakub Palaczynski Date: 10. July 2018 CVE: CVE-2018-18865 Affected product: ============= Royal TS/X RoyalTS/X Exploit var wsUri = "ws://127.0.0.1:54890/"; var output; function init output = document.getElementById"output"; testWebSocket; functio...