CVE-2025-12360 Better Find and Replace <= 1.7.7 - Missing Authorization

The Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized API usage due to a missing capability check on the rtafarajax function in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level...

CVE-2025-12360 Better Find and Replace <= 1.7.7 - Missing Authorization

The Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized API usage due to a missing capability check on the rtafarajax function in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level...

PT-2025-45180

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Better Find and Replace – AI-Powered Suggestions plugin for WordPress versions through 1.7.7 Description The software is susceptible to unauthorized API usage because of a missing capability check within the rtafar ajax function. This allows...

SesameOp Backdoor Abused OpenAI Assistants API for Remote Access

Microsoft researchers found the SesameOp backdoor using OpenAI’s Assistants API for remote access, data theft, and command communication...

Microsoft Detects "SesameOp" Backdoor Using OpenAI's API as a Stealth Command Channel

Microsoft has disclosed details of a novel backdoor dubbed SesameOp that uses OpenAI Assistants Application Programming Interface API for command-and-control C2 communications. "Instead of relying on more traditional methods, the threat actor behind this backdoor abuses OpenAI as a C2 channel as ...

SesameOp: Novel backdoor uses OpenAI Assistants API for command and control

Microsoft Incident Response – Detection and Response Team DART researchers uncovered a new backdoor that is notable for its novel use of the OpenAI Assistants Application Programming Interface API as a mechanism for command-and-control C2 communications. Instead of relying on more traditional...

SesameOp: Novel backdoor uses OpenAI Assistants API for command and control

Microsoft Incident Response – Detection and Response Team DART researchers uncovered a new backdoor that is notable for its novel use of the OpenAI Assistants Application Programming Interface API as a mechanism for command-and-control C2 communications. Instead of relying on more traditional...

Would you sext ChatGPT? (Lock and Code S06E22)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast … In the final, cold winter months of the year, ChatGPT could be heating up. On October 14, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the "restrictions" that his company previously placed on their flagship product, ChatGPT, would be removed, allowing, perhaps, for...

Arbitrary File Read

flowise is vulnerable to an arbitrary file read. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of the chatId parameter in the /api/v1/get-upload-file and /api/v1/openai-assistants-file/download endpoints, which allows an attacker to read unintended files on the local filesystem and potentially...

Atlas browser’s Omnibox opens up new privacy and security risks

It seems that with every new agentic browser we discover yet another way to abuse one. OpenAI recently introduced a ChatGPT based AI browser called Atlas. It didn’t take researchers long to find that the combined search and prompt bar—called the Omnibox—can be exploited. By pasting a specially...

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NSFW ChatGPT? OpenAI plans “grown-up mode” for verified adults

If you've had your fill of philosophical discussions with ChatGPT, CEO Sam Altman has news for you: the service will soon be able to engage in far less highbrow conversations of the sexual kind. That's right—sexting is coming to ChatGPT. Are we really surprised? It marks a change in sentiment for...

‘ChatGPT Tainted Memories’ Exploit Enables Command Injection in Atlas Browser

LayerX Security found a flaw in OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser that lets attackers inject commands into its memory, posing major security and phishing risks...

ChatGPT Atlas Browser Can Be Tricked by Fake URLs into Executing Hidden Commands

The newly released OpenAI ChatGPT Atlas web browser has been found to be susceptible to a prompt injection attack where its omnibox can be jailbroken by disguising a malicious prompt as a seemingly harmless URL to visit. "The omnibox combined address/search bar interprets input either as a URL to...

Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web

Plus: The Jaguar Land Rover hack sets an expensive new record, OpenAI’s new Atlas browser raises security fears, Starlink cuts off scam compounds, and more...

CVE-2025-60511

Moodle OpenAI Chat Block plugin 3.0.1 2025021700 suffers from an Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR vulnerability due to insufficient validation of the blockId parameter in /blocks/openaichat/api/completion.php. An authenticated student can impersonate another user's block e.g., administrator...

CVE-2025-60511

Moodle OpenAI Chat Block plugin 3.0.1 2025021700 suffers from an Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR vulnerability due to insufficient validation of the blockId parameter in /blocks/openaichat/api/completion.php. An authenticated student can impersonate another user's block e.g., administrator...

CVE-2025-60511

Moodle OpenAI Chat Block plugin 3.0.1 2025021700 suffers from an Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR vulnerability due to insufficient validation of the blockId parameter in /blocks/openaichat/api/completion.php. An authenticated student can impersonate another user's block e.g., administrator...

CVE-2025-60511

Moodle OpenAI Chat Block plugin 3.0.1 2025021700 suffers from an Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR vulnerability due to insufficient validation of the blockId parameter in /blocks/openaichat/api/completion.php. An authenticated student can impersonate another user's block e.g., administrator...

Evaluating Large Language Models in Detecting Secrets in Android Apps

Mobile apps often embed authentication secrets, such as API keys, tokens, and client IDs, to integrate with cloud services. However, developers often hardcode these credentials into Android apps, exposing them to extraction through reverse engineering. Once compromised, adversaries can exploit...