Meta’s AI support bot happily handed Instagram accounts to hackers

Customer service chatbots have one job: get the user what they're asking for without bothering a human. Meta's new AI support assistant took that brief a little too seriously. Over the past few months, attackers have been opening support chats, telling the bot they were locked out of Instagram...

Hackers Abused Meta’s AI Support Bot to Hijack Major Instagram Accounts

Hackers abused Meta’s AI support bot to hijack major Instagram accounts, bypassing security checks as videos showed the flaw before Meta fixed the issue...

EUVD-2026-33851

The Slider Revolution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions 7.0.0 - 7.0.14, via the 'slider.get.full' AJAX Action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive data including raw social...

CVE-2026-9048

The Slider Revolution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions 7.0.0 - 7.0.14, via the 'slider.get.full' AJAX Action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive data including raw social...

CVE-2026-9048 Slider Revolution 7.0.0 - 7.0.14 - Incorrect Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure

The Slider Revolution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions 7.0.0 - 7.0.14, via the 'slider.get.full' AJAX Action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive data including raw social...

CVE-2026-9048

The Slider Revolution WordPress plugin is affected (versions 7.0.0–7.0.14). The vulnerability arises in the slider.get.full AJAX action, enabling authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access and higher to expose sensitive data stored in slider settings. Exposed data includes raw social m...

CVE-2026-9048 Slider Revolution 7.0.0 - 7.0.14 - Incorrect Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure

The Slider Revolution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions 7.0.0 - 7.0.14, via the 'slider.get.full' AJAX Action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive data including raw social...

CVE-2026-9048

The Slider Revolution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions 7.0.0 - 7.0.14, via the 'slider.get.full' AJAX Action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive data including raw social...

Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta's "AI support assistant" bot into resetting...

PT-2026-45666

The Slider Revolution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions 7.0.0 - 7.0.14, via the 'slider.get.full' AJAX Action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive data including raw social...

aiograpi: Unsafe signup challenge path handling

aiograpi versions before 0.9.10 accepted server-supplied signup challenge paths and used them to build request URLs before validating that the paths were relative Instagram API paths. A malicious or tampered challenge payload could cause challenge handling requests to be sent outside the intended...

Malicious code in ionic-insta-api-wrapper (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 44363ea3b97b18ea938430059144fd219a58b93d04149e45da97c60322ff4868 This package presents itself as an Instagram API wrapper but silently forwards caller-supplied Instagram credentials and session data to a hardcoded...

MAL-2026-4588 Malicious code in ionic-insta-api-wrapper (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 44363ea3b97b18ea938430059144fd219a58b93d04149e45da97c60322ff4868 This package presents itself as an Instagram API wrapper but silently forwards caller-supplied Instagram credentials and session data to a hardcoded...

Meta’s confusing new approach to chat privacy

Recent news had us wondering whether Meta actually knows what it wants. On one platform, Meta is promoting AI chats that it says even it cannot read. On another, it has removed one of the few features that genuinely prevented Meta from accessing private conversations. "Meta removed support for...

EUVD-2026-27189

The Royal Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Instagram Feed widget's 'instagramfollowtext' setting in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.1056 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for...

CVE-2026-5159

The Royal Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Instagram Feed widget's 'instagramfollowtext' setting in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.1056 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for...

CVE-2026-5159

The CVE-2026-5159 entry documents a Stored Cross-Site Scripting flaw in the Royal Addons for Elementor plugin (WordPress). Affected component: the Instagram Feed widget, specifically the instagram_follow_text setting. Root cause: insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in all versions...

CVE-2026-5159

The Royal Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Instagram Feed widget's 'instagramfollowtext' setting in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.1056 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for...

CVE-2026-5159 Royal Addons for Elementor <= 1.7.1056 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'Follow Button Text' Parameter

The Royal Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Instagram Feed widget's 'instagramfollowtext' setting in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.1056 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for...

CVE-2026-5159 Royal Addons for Elementor <= 1.7.1056 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'Follow Button Text' Parameter

The Royal Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Instagram Feed widget's 'instagramfollowtext' setting in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.1056 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for...