Pinterest tracks users without consent, alleges complaint

Pinterest has received a complaint from privacy watchdog noyb None of your business over the unsolicited tracking of its users. Pinterest allows you to pin images to virtual pinboards; useful for interior design, recipe ideas, party inspiration, and much more. It started as a virtual replacement...

CVE-2024-9072 GDPR-Extensions-com – Consent Manager <= 1.0.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File Upload

The GDPR-Extensions-com – Consent Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with...

CVE-2024-9072: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

The GDPR-Extensions-com – Consent Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with...

WordPress GDPR-Extensions-com Plugin <= 1.0.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Software GDPR-Extensions-com Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 1.0.0 Fixed in N/A OWASP Top 10 A7: Cross-Site Scripting XSS Classification Cross Site Scripting XSS CVE CVE-2024-9072 Patch priority Low CVSS severity Low 5.9 Developer Claim ownership PSID 51da4846a013 Credits Francesco Carlucci...

E.U. Court Limits Meta's Use of Personal Facebook Data for Targeted Ads

Europe's top court has ruled that Meta Platforms must restrict the use of personal data harvested from Facebook for serving targeted ads even when users consent to their information being used for advertising purposes, a move that could have serious consequences for ad-driven companies operating ...

Browser Guard now flags data breaches and better protects personal data

Two things are true of data online: It will be collected and, just as easily, it will be lost. But a major update to Malwarebytes Browser Guard will better protect users from opaque data collection that happens every day online, as well as raising their awareness about corporate data breaches tha...

Facebook and Instagram passwords were stored in plaintext, Meta fined

Ireland’s privacy watchdog Data Protection Commission DPC has fined Meta €91M $101M after the discovery in 2019 that Meta had stored 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords in plaintext. The DPC ruled that Meta was in violation of GDPR on several occasions related to this breach. It determin...

Mozilla Faces GDPR Complaint Over New Firefox Tracking Feature

NOYB, a European privacy group has filed a complaint with Austrian authorities, alleging that Mozilla breached GDPR by…...

Meta Fined €91 Million for Storing Millions of Facebook and Instagram Passwords in Plaintext

The Irish Data Protection Commission DPC has fined Meta €91 million $101.56 million as part of a probe into a security lapse in March 2019, when the company disclosed that it had mistakenly stored users' passwords in plaintext in its systems. The investigation, launched by the DPC the next month,...

goTenna Pro X and Pro X2 (Update A)

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 8.7 ATTENTION : Low attack complexity Vendor : goTenna Equipment : Pro series Vulnerabilities : Weak Password Requirements, Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information, Missing Support for Integrity Check, Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information,...

Clearview AI Faces €30.5M Fine for Building Illegal Facial Recognition Database

The Dutch Data Protection Authority Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of €30.5 million $33.7 million against facial recognition firm Clearview AI for violating the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR in the European Union E.U. by building an "illegal database with billions of photos of faces,"...

WordPress WP GDPR Compliance Plugin Privilege Escalation

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'WordPress WP GDPR Compliance Plugin Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q The Wordpress GDPR Compliance plugin 'Mikey Veenstra WordFence',...

Dutch Regulator Fines Uber €290 Million for GDPR Violations in Data Transfers to U.S.

The Dutch Data Protection Authority DPA has fined Uber a record €290 million $324 million for allegedly failing to comply with European Union E.U. data protection standards when sending sensitive driver data to the U.S. "The Dutch DPA found that Uber transferred personal data of European taxi...

CVE-2022-3399 Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA <= 2.4.17.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

The Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'cookienoticeoptionsrefusecodehead' parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.4.17.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for...

CVE-2022-3399 Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA <= 2.4.17.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

The Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'cookienoticeoptionsrefusecodehead' parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.4.17.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for...

CVE-2022-3399

CVE-2022-3399 corresponds to a Stored XSS in the WordPress plugin “Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA.” The public documents identify the vulnerability as stemming from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the cookie_notice_options[refuse_code_head] parameter, affecting ...

WordPress Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA Plugin <= 2.4.17.1 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Software Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 2.4.17.1 Fixed in 2.4.18 OWASP Top 10 A7: Cross-Site Scripting XSS Classification Cross Site Scripting XSS CVE CVE-2022-3399 Patch priority Low CVSS severity Low 5.9 Developer Claim ownership PSID 1b0453de5cdc...

CVE-2022-3399: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

The Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'cookienoticeoptionsrefusecodehead' parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.4.17.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for...

PT-2024-11586

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 2.4.17.1 Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This allows...

X accused of unlawfully using personal data of 60 million+ users to train its AI

In what may come as a surprise to nobody at all, theres been yet another complaint about using social media data to train Artificial Intelligence AI. This time the complaint is against X formerly Twitter and Grok, the conversational AI chatbot developed by Elon Musks company xAI. Grok is a large...