CVE-2022-31095 Exposure of Sensitive Information in discourse-chat

discourse-chat is a chat plugin for the Discourse application. Versions prior to 0.4 are vulnerable to an exposure of sensitive information, where an attacker who knows the message ID for a channel they do not have access to can view that message using the chat message lookup endpoint, primarily...

PT-2022-20523 · Discourse · Discourse-Chat

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: discourse-chat versions prior to 0.4 Description: The issue affects the discourse-chat plugin for the Discourse application, allowing an attacker who knows the message ID for a channel they do not have access to, to view that message using th...

Haraj v3.7 跨站脚本漏洞

A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Haraj v3.7, a buying and selling platform from Haraj Saudi Arabia. The vulnerability stems from a lack of data validation filtering of user-supplied data and output in some DM components. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute...

Exploit for Cross-site Scripting in Angtech Haraj

CVE-2022-31300 Haraj Script 3.7 - DM Section Authenticated Sto...

Rocket.Chat: getUserMentionsByChannel leaks messages with mention from private channel

Summary The getUserMentionsByChannel meteor server method discloses messages from private channels and direct messages regardless of the users access permission to the room. Description When calling the getUserMentionsByChannel method, the server does not check the users access to the given room...

X (Formerly Twitter): Bypass t.co link shortener in Twitter direct messages

The researcher demonstrated a way to create a link that will not be replaced with safe shortened t.co url, by sending Direct Messages containing more than 50 t.co links to another Twitter user. If the recipient views the message using Twitter’s Android app, and clicks the 51st link in the...

Twitter Fixes High-Severity Flaw Affecting Android Users

Twitter has fixed a vulnerability in its Android app, which could have enabled attackers to access private Twitter data, like direct messages DMs on Android devices. The flaw is related to an underlying Android operating system OS security issue CVE-2018-9492, which affects operating system...

Rocket.Chat: It is possible to elevate privileges for any authenticated user to view permissions matrix and view Direct messages without appropriate permissions.

Description: ===================== For the user with "View Private Room" permission only it is possible to rewrite permission role e.g. to admin in /api/v1/me method response via some proxy tools e.g. Charles and get access to servers permissions matrix and view Direct messages. Releases Affected...

PT-2020-14008 · Mattermost · Mattermost Server

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mattermost Server versions prior to 5.23.0 Description: An issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically an infinite loop, by exploiting automatic direct message replies. Recommendations: For versions prior to 5.23.0, upda...

PT-2020-14019 · Mattermost · Mattermost Server

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mattermost Server versions prior to 5.19.0 Description: An issue was discovered that allows attackers to rename a channel and cause a collision with a direct message. Recommendations: For versions prior to 5.19.0, update to version 5.19.0 or...

X (Formerly Twitter): iOS app crashed by specially crafted direct message reactions

Summary: iOS app crashed by specially crafted direct message reactions Description: Twitter does not properly sanitize direct message reactions, making it possible for arbitrary reaction text to be shown to the user via the message preview in the direct message list. Special characters such as \r...

Slack: DoS on the Direct Messages

In November 2019, @cyanpiny alerted us to a vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to cause a denial of service for Slack users. We implemented a fix within weeks, and nothing further is required from users to be protected. Thank you to @cyanpiny for finding this!...

X (Formerly Twitter): Incorrect details on OAuth permissions screen allows DMs to be read without permission

NOTE! Thanks for submitting a report! Please replace all the square sections below with the pertinent details. Remember, the more detail you provide, the easier it is for us to triage and respond quickly, so be sure to take your time filling out the report! Summary: The OAuth screen can be tricke...

Twitter API Flaw Exposed Users Messages to Wrong Developers For Over a Year

The security and privacy issues with APIs and third-party app developers are something that's not just Facebook is dealing with. A bug in Twitter's API inadvertently exposed some users' direct messages DMs and protected tweets to unauthorized third-party app developers who weren't supposed to get...

Twitter Flaw Exposed Direct Messages To External Developers

Twitter on Friday said that a recently-patched bug in its platform enabled software developers to read users’ private direct messages or protected tweets. The bug ran from May 2017 until it was discovered on September 10 – after which Twitter patched the glitch to prevent data from being...

Twitter is Testing End-to-End Encrypted Direct Messages

Twitter has been adopting new trends at a snail's pace. But it's better to be late than never. Since 2013 people were speculating that Twitter will bring end-to-end encryption to its direct messages, and finally almost 5 years after the encryption era began, the company is now testing an end-to-e...

Twitter is Testing End-to-End Encrypted Direct Messages

Twitter has been adopting new trends at a snail's pace. But it's better to be late than never. Since 2013 people were speculating that Twitter will bring end-to-end encryption to its direct messages, and finally almost 5 years after the encryption era began, the company is now testing an end-to-e...

X (Formerly Twitter): Insecure Direct Object Reference - access to other user/group DM's

Hello, I found a way to access group DM's which i don't have access to, Conditions to be met: - Should have been in that DM group atleast once. Exploitation ways: =============== - let's say they're three twitter profiles, Naruto , Goku and Eren. - Naruto creates a DM group in between himself ,...

Slack: Stored XSS in Slackbot Direct Messages

Whenever a new team is created, Slackbot uses automated profile completion by asking a few questions from the user like the first name, last name, skype account etc. But instead of providing the correct details we provide as input then Slackbot will cause the data go inside the anchor tag ... so...

Setting Up a Secure and Private Twitter Account

To kick off the new year, we are restarting our tutorial screencast series where we attempt to briefly walk users through the process of locking down their various online accounts. Today’s video, which is just slightly longer than we had hoped, thoroughly details the steps necessary to ensure tha...