Cross-site scripting vulnerability in wordpress plugin contest-gallery

Contest Gallery is a Wordpress plugin. The Wordpress plugin contest-gallery suffers from an xss vulnerability due to improper filtering of user input, which allows attackers to frame malicious web pages and trick users into parsing them to execute arbitrary code...

The Project Zero Contest — Google will Pay you $200,000 to Hack Android OS

Why waiting for researchers and bug hunters to know vulnerabilities in your products, when you can just throw a contest for that. Google has launched its own Android hacking contest with the first prize winner receiving $200,000 in cash. That's a Hefty Sum! The contest is a way to find and destro...

Announcing the Third Annual Flare-On Challenge

Let fall be the season for reverse engineering! On Sept. 23, 2016, the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team will be hosting its third annual Flare-On reverse engineering contest with a designated start time of 8pm ET. This is a CTF-style challenge for all active and aspiring rever...

Announcing the Project Zero Prize

Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Exploit Enthusiast Despite the existence of vulnerability rewards programs at Google and other companies, many unique, high-quality security bugs have been discovered as a result of hacking contests. Hoping to continue the stream of great bugs, we’ve decided to star...

designcontest.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://www.designcontest.com/"/ Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 27.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 46891 VIP website status:| Yes Check designcontest.com SSL connection:| Grade: B-...

Researcher Pockets $30,000 in Chrome Bounties

Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski is having a good month. Having cashed in earlier in May to the tune of $15,500, Mlynski pocketed another $30,000 courtesy of Google’s bug bounty program after four high-severity vulnerabilities were patched in the Chrome browser, each worth $7,500 to the...

3 6 0 Marvel Team virtualization vulnerabilities the fifth bomb: CVE-2 0 1 6-3 7 1 0 Dark Portal vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

From 2 0 1 5 year 5 month venom vulnerabilities raging global Cloud Platform, 3 6 0 Marvel Team accumulated in kvm, xen, vmware platform on found submitted up to 2 2 pieces of high-risk security 0day vulnerabilities, these vulnerabilities will lead to a General purpose cloud system was hacked...

Wordpress Contest Gallery plugin XSS Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Wordpress plugin contest-gallery XSS Vulnerability Software Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/contest-gallery/ Version:2.03 Google dork: inurl:/wp-content/plugins/contest-gallery The code in...

Chrome 0day so that millions of Android devices suffer from a remote threat-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! From China qihoo 3 6 0 security researcher Guang Gong in the latest version of the Android platform, Chrome browser found a serious 0day vulnerability, which allows attacker to obtain the victim's cell phone the full administrator access, and the vulnerability of the use of the code to be able ...

Hacking Team Flash Zero Day Weaponized in Exploit Kits

Handlers for three major exploit kits have managed to utilize in short order a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player uncovered among the 400 Gb of data stolen from Hacking Team. Experts, including French researcher Kafeine and a number of others from security companies, revealed last night...

Naval Academy Cadets Win NSA Hacking Contest

Midshipmen from the United States Naval Academy in have won the National Security Agency’s Cyber Defense Exercise CDX for the third time. Between April 13 and 17, the CDX pits the U.S. Naval, Air Force, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine and Military Academy and the Royal Military College of Canada...

April 2015 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

Microsoft has patched a critical vulnerability in the Windows HTTP protocol stack, known as HTTP.sys, which could have devastating consequences once it’s inevitably publicly exploited. The bulletin, MS15-034, is one of four critical bulletins issued today by Microsoft. Experts warn that exploitin...

Mozilla official rushed to repair the Pwn2Own contest on the disclosure of the Firefox browser vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

3 on 1 8 March, the world's top hacker contest Pwn2Own2015 in Vancouver, Canada, opened the Battle screen, and the brightest great God recount, Mariusz Mlynski in a very short period of time compromised the Firefox get 3 0 0 0 0 $ a huge bonus. And Mozilla official at the end of the game...

SUSE-SU-2015:0593-1 Security update for Mozilla Firefox

MozillaFirefox was updated to the 31.5.3ESR release to fix two security vulnerabilities: MFSA 2015-29 / CVE-2015-0817: Security researcher ilxu1a reported, through HP Zero Day Initiative's Pwn2Own contest, a flaw in Mozilla's implementation of typed array bounds checking in JavaScript just-in-tim...

All Major Browsers Fall At Pwn2Own Day Two

Two researchers on Thursday took down the four major browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari, as Pwn2Own, the annual hacking contest that runs in tandem at CanSecWest, wound down in Vancouver. The story of the day was Korean researcher Jung Hoon Lee...

Privilege escalation through SVG navigation — Mozilla

Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported, through HP Zero Day Initiative's Pwn2Own contest, a method to run arbitrary scripts in a privileged context. This bypassed the same-origin policy protections by using a flaw in the processing of SVG format content navigation...

Google Pwnium Program Now Open All Year

Google is expanding its successful Pwnium vulnerability reward program–which has run at various security conferences for a couple of years now–to run continuously and offer an unlimited pool of financial rewards. Pwnium originally was established as an alternative to the Pwn2Own hacking contest a...

HP's Zero Day Initiative Changes Bug-Buying Guidelines

HP’s Zero Day Initiative has decided to adjust its guidelines and criteria or buying some vulnerabilities in the future, eliminating some large classes of bugs from its menu. The group, which has been among the more visible and prominent of the vulnerability purchasing programs since its inceptio...

Windows Phone Sandbox Holds Up at Mobile Pwn2Own

The Mobile Pwn2Own hacking contest ended today as did the PacSec Applied Security Conference in Tokyo with hackers unable to gain complete control over a Windows Phone and the latest version of the Android mobile OS. Contest sponsors HP said two competitors, Nico Joly and Juri Aedla, were able to...

DEF CON SOHOpelessly Broken Router Hacking Contest

It’s becoming cliché to say it’s trivial to pop a small office or home router. Vendors are making it easy, since most are interested in cramming features such as print, file and media servers into these boxes and less so on basic security measures. Therefore, it sometimes helps to illustrate the...