CVE-2025-65113 ClipBucket v5 Unauthenticated Object Flagging Vulnerability

ClipBucket v5 is an open source video sharing platform. Prior to version 5.5.2 - 164, an authorization bypass vulnerability in the AJAX flagging system allows any unauthenticated user to flag any content users, videos, photos, collections on the platform. This can lead to mass flagging attacks,...

What’s there to save about social media? (Lock and Code S06E20)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast … "Connection" was the promise—and goal—of much of the early internet. No longer would people be separated from vital resources and news that was either too hard to reach or made simply inaccessible by governments. No longer would education be guarded behind...

Understanding Content Moderation Policies and User Experiences in Generative AI Products

While recent research has focused on developing safeguards for generative AI GAI model-level content safety, little is known about how content moderation to prevent malicious content performs for end-users in real-world GAI products. To bridge this gap, we investigated content moderation policies...

Talking Transactions: Decentralized Communication through Ethereum Input Data Messages (IDMs)

Can you imagine, blockchain transactions can talk! In this paper, we study how they talk and what they talk about. We focus on the input data field of Ethereum transactions, which is designed to allow external callers to interact with smart contracts. In practice, this field also enables users to...

Telegram Agrees to Share User Data With Authorities for Criminal Investigations

In a major policy reversal, the popular messaging app Telegram has announced it will give users' IP addresses and phone numbers to authorities in response to valid legal requests in an attempt to rein in criminal activity on the platform. "We've made it clear that the IP addresses and phone numbe...

What the arrest of Telegram’s CEO means, with Eva Galperin (Lock and Code S05E19)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… On August 24, at an airport just outside of Paris, a man named Pavel Durov was detained for questioning by French investigators. Just days later, the same man was charged in crimes related to the distribution of child pornography and illicit transactions,...

Pavel Durov’s Arrest Leaves Telegram Hanging in the Balance

Durov has reportedly been detained in France over Telegram’s alleged failure to adequately moderate illegal content on the messaging app. His arrest sparked backlash and left some associates asking, what now?...

Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Arrested in France for Content Moderation Failures

Pavel Durov, founder and chief executive of the popular messaging app Telegram, was arrested in France on Saturday, according to French television network TF1. Durov is believed to have been apprehended pursuant to a warrant issued in connection with a preliminary police investigation. TF1 said t...

Authorization Bypass

Drupal is vulnerable to an Authorization Bypass. The vulnerability is due to the content moderation module failing to check a user's access to use certain transitions, potentially allowing unauthorized access to restricted translations...

GHSA-86XW-VMCX-9MJ4 Drupal Content moderation Access bypass

In some conditions, drupal content moderation fails to check a users access to use certain transitions, leading to an access bypass...

Drupal Content moderation Access bypass

In some conditions, drupal content moderation fails to check a users access to use certain transitions, leading to an access bypass...

GHSA-F84Q-MGJ9-8JFC Drupal Content moderation Access bypass

In some conditions, drupal content moderation fails to check a users access to use certain transitions, leading to an access bypass...

Drupal Content moderation Access bypass

In some conditions, drupal content moderation fails to check a users access to use certain transitions, leading to an access bypass...

PT-2024-40185 · Drupal · Drupal

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: drupal affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to an access bypass in drupal content moderation. In certain conditions, it fails to check a user's access to use specific transitions. Recommendations: At the moment,...

PT-2024-40266 · Drupal · Drupal

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Drupal affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to an access bypass in Drupal's content moderation system. Under certain conditions, it fails to properly check a user's access to use specific transitions...

Picking fights and gaining rights, with Justin Brookman: Lock and Code S05E09

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Our Lock and Code host, David Ruiz, has a bit of an apology to make: “Sorry for all the depressing episodes.” When the Lock and Code podcast explored online harassment and abuse this year, our guest provided several guidelines and tips for individuals to lo...

DRUPAL-CONTRIB-2023-047

This module enables notifications to be sent to all users of a particular role, or to the content's author when a piece of content is transitioned from one state to another via core's content\moderation module. The module doesn't sufficiently check access to content when sending notifications. Th...

Content Moderation Notifications - Moderately critical - Information disclosure - SA-CONTRIB-2023-047

This module enables notifications to be sent to all users of a particular role, or to the content's author when a piece of content is transitioned from one state to another via core's contentmoderation module. The module doesn't sufficiently check access to content when sending notifications. Thi...

Two Supreme Court cases could change the Internet as we know it

The Supreme Court is about to reconsider Section 230, a law thats been the foundation of the way we have used the Internet for decades. The court will be handling a few cases that at first glance are about online platforms' liability for hosting accounts from foreign terrorists. But at a deeper...

TikTok Quietly Updated Its Privacy Policy to Collect Users' Biometric Data

Popular short-form video-sharing service TikTok quietly revised its privacy policy in the U.S., allowing it to automatically collect biometric information such as faceprints and voiceprints from the content its users post on the platform. The policy change, first spotted by TechCrunch, went into...