Free BrewDog beer with a side order of shareholder PII?

TL;DR BrewDog exposed the details of over 200,000 ‘Equity for Punks’ shareholders for over 18 months plus many more customers Every mobile app user was given the same hard coded API Bearer Token, rendering request authorisation useless It was therefore trivial for any user to access any other...

Free BrewDog beer, with a side order of shareholder PII?

TL;DR BrewDog exposed the details of over 200,000 ‘Equity for Punks’ shareholders for over 18 months plus many more customers Every mobile app user was given the same hard coded API Bearer Token, rendering request authorisation useless It was therefore trivial for any user to access any other...

A simpler, more integrated approach to data governance

It’s no secret that the volume of data created by organizations and people multiplies daily. And, in the digital—and hybrid work—world we live in, that data is spread across more tools, platforms, devices, and clouds than ever before, creating regulatory challenges and security risks. Organizatio...

CVE-2021-24569

The Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA WordPress plugin before 2.1.2 does not escape the value of its Button Text setting when outputting it in an attribute in the frontend, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting even when the unfilteredhtml capability...

Cross site scripting

The Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA WordPress plugin before 2.1.2 does not escape the value of its Button Text setting when outputting it in an attribute in the frontend, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting even when the unfilteredhtml capability...

CVE-2021-24569

The CVE-2021-24569 entry concerns the WordPress plugin “Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA” (versions before 2.1.2). The exposed issue is that the Button Text setting is not escaped when output in an HTML attribute on the frontend, enabling Cross-Site Scripting by high-privilege users (e....

WP DSGVO Tools (GDPR) < 3.1.24 - Unauthenticated Plugin's Settings Update to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin is lacking proper authorisation and CSRF checks, makes some functions available to unauthenticated as well as any authenticated users via AJAX hooks. As a result, unauthenticated users could update some of the plugin's settings, and set a Cross-Site Scripting payload in the Matomo Code...

WP DSGVO Tools (GDPR) < 3.1.24 - Unauthenticated Plugin's Settings Update to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin is lacking proper authorisation and CSRF checks, makes some functions available to unauthenticated as well as any authenticated users via AJAX hooks. As a result, unauthenticated users could update some of the plugin's settings, and set a Cross-Site Scripting payload in the Matomo Code...

Rapid7 Statement on the New Standard Contractual Clauses for International Transfers of Personal Data

Context: On June 4, 2021, the European Commission published new standard contractual clauses “New SCCs". Under the General Data Protection Regulation “GDPR", transfers of personal data to countries outside of the European Economic Area EEA must meet certain conditions. The New SCCs are an approve...

When data privacy and protection are rights, don’t get it wrong

Twenty-one years ago, Latanya Sweeney showed that it’s possible to uniquely identify 87% of Americans with just three pieces of personal data: gender, ZIP code and full date of birth. Long before anyone had heard the words ‘data lake’, ‘cloud storage’ or ‘big data’, nevermind ‘social media’, it w...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Cookie Notice & Consent Banner for GDPR & CCPA Compliance WordPress plugin before 1.7.2 does not properly sanitize inputs to prevent injection of arbitrary HTML within the plugin's design customization options...

CVE-2021-24590

The CVE pertains to the WordPress plugin “Cookie Notice & Consent Banner for GDPR & CCPA Compliance” (prior to version 1.7.2). The root cause is insufficient sanitization of inputs in the plugin’s design customization options, allowing an attacker to inject arbitrary HTML. Practical impact is sto...

CVE-2021-24590 Cookie Notice & Consent Banner for GDPR & CCPA Compliance < 1.7.2 - Authenticated Stored XSS

The Cookie Notice & Consent Banner for GDPR & CCPA Compliance WordPress plugin before 1.7.2 does not properly sanitize inputs to prevent injection of arbitrary HTML within the plugin's design customization options...

A week in security (August 30 – September 5)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs ProxyToken: another nail-biter from Microsoft Exchange Macs turn on apps signed by Symantec, treat them as malware Google Play sign-ins can be abused to track another person’s movements FTC bans SpyFone and its CEO from continuing to sell stalkerware BrakTooth...

WhatsApp hit with €225 million fine for GDPR violations

WhatsApp was hit with a €225 million fine for violating the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, the European Union’s sweeping data protection law that has been in effect for more than three years. The fine represents the highest ever penalty levied by the Irish Data Protection Commission,...

OpSec. Expanding your search: Hunting domains

In the last few blogs I have introduced OSINT and OpSec, talked about leaky images and using Google Dorks and how to use those techniques specifically to examine your own corporate OpSec. One of the most important aspects is to understand how wide your target expands. Many companies own multiple...

Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA < 2.1.2 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin does not escape the value of its Button Text setting when outputting it in an attribute in the frontend, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting even when the unfilteredhtml capability is disallowed. PoC Put the following payload in the Button text...

Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA < 2.1.2 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin does not escape the value of its Button Text setting when outputting it in an attribute in the frontend, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting even when the unfilteredhtml capability is disallowed. Put the following payload in the Button text setti...

WordPress Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA plugin <= 2.1.3 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability discovered by Asif Nawaz Minhas in WordPress Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA plugin versions = 2.1.3. Solution Update the WordPress Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA plugin to the latest available version at least 2.1.4...

Get Lifetime Access to 24 Professional Cybersecurity Certification Prep Courses

Not all heroes wear capes. Cybersecurity professionals are digital warriors who use their knowledge and skill to battle malicious hackers. Sounds like an exciting career, right? If the comic-book comparisons aren't working for you, perhaps some figures will. According to ZipRecruiter, the average...